South Africa: 'Let's Hope We Don't Get Shot' - Witness in Extortion Trial of Alleged Underworld Kingpin

12 November 2018

A brand manager of upscale restaurant the Grand Café says he lived in fear when he was unable to pay alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack and three others for security, the Cape Town Regional Court has heard.

Radley Dijkers testified about how the accused - Nafiz Modack, Colin Booysen, Ashley Fields and Jacques Cronje - allegedly took over the restaurant's security and forced the owners to pay for the service in 2017. A fifth accused, Carl Lakay, was shot dead in August in Goodwood.

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