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Mom leads battle to silence the guns of youth gangsters

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“We are not looking for trouble,” are the words of Felicity Roland, a crime fighter in Cloetesville, Stellenbosch, after she led our team into the home of a 17-year-old hitman whose brother, a gunman himself, was murdered and their mother recently escaped death after being shot in the eye.

The brothers are among hundreds, if not thousands, of teen or youth gangsters terrorising communities such as Cloetesville.

A firearm is hidden in his tracksuit as he quickly scales past our team and rushes into his home, which is dark and smells of dagga.

He joins his gang on the

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