Outside of prison the rules are completely different.
Everyone has access to guns - the great equaliser - these
days, and coupled with the fact that they do not always
have the luxury of strength in numbers and confined spaces
that they enjoy in prison, the number gangsters are far
more exposed.
And there are numerous mindless drug-addicted
time bombs roaming the streets.
All in all, the gang infested areas of the
Cape Flats where gangsters rule is a dangerous place, and
even more so if you are a member of the numbers gangs, who
thinks that your reputation in prison gives you the same
power in the free world.
In the Branhouse ad, ordinary people saw
Francois Tietie, supposedly in prison, uttering the words
‘Don’t be scared of me. I’m not an animal’
on TV and instantly Francois became the personification
of the threat every decent person dreads should they ever
end up in prison.
40-year-old Francois obviously started believing
this shit and started playing the part.
And then he encountered one of those walking-dead
mindless drug-crazed time bombs who probably couldn’t
remember watching TV.
In Belhar on Wednesday, Francois got involved
in a scuffle with an eighteen-year-old who promptly pulled
out a gun and shot him dead.
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