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Mafia-style syndicate targets Isipingo businesses

Demanding protection fees

A CRIMINAL syndicate has been doing the rounds in Isipingo, allegedly threatening small businesses and attempting to extort “protection fees” from them.

However, pioneers and new business owners in the South Durban town, have vowed to work together to fight the syndicate.

Junaid Iqbal, chairperson of the Isipingo Business Forum and the Isipingo Community Policing Forum (CPF), said he had been approached by five men at his shop, who had told him to step down from both positions, with immediate effect.

“They told

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