‘It’s like a war-zone’: Five dead in less than 24 hours as gunshots ring out in Cape community

The streets of Hillview, near Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats are bleeding as gang gunfire claimed the lives of five people in less than 24 hours at the weekend.Hillview is on the order of Steenberg and falls under the Muizenberg policing precinct.Residents in the area have been held hostage by continuous gang violence for weeks.On Saturday, April 13, four different shooting incidents were reported in the area which led to the death of five people and left four others injured.Western Cape Police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Pojie, said the first incident was a triple…