In a statement released today the opposition party stated that the ANC has an obligation to keep South African residents safe.

“Bedfordview residents are living in an underworld cloud of South Africa’s very own ‘Al Capone’,” the DA stated.

Bedfordview ward councillor, Clr Michele Clarke, said anyone living in, or travelling through, Bedfordview should not have to worry about being blown up or hit by a stray bullet.

“The saga around Krejcir – and before him, murdered Teaser’s boss, Lolly Jackson – is seriously harming the reputation Bedfordview holds for being an established, attractive and relatively safe area in which to live and work,” said Clr Clarke.

Clr Clarke said that while the body count was rising at a staggering pace, it was a miracle that not more innocent bystanders had been killed by stray bullets fired by people who clearly had little regard for the lives of innocent South Africans.

She said that while she understood there was a complicated legal process to follow as well as delicate international relations to take into account, it was imperative that the South African government acted swiftly and decisively in this case to protect its citizens.

Clr Clarke said she would facilitate a petition to be signed by Bedfordview’s residents and, hopefully, hundreds of thousands more supportive South Africans, to be tabled in Parliament, as well as use all means possible to persuade the South African government to take this threat seriously.

“Yesterday’s bomb blast occurred next door to a school and close to one of South Africa’s most popular malls.   These tit-for-tat executions and assassinations have the huge potential to cause tragedy.  Besides the physical danger this group of ‘associates’ poses to innocent people,  events like these will surely start affecting property values and the likelihood that people will want to buy property or invest in businesses in Bedfordview.  It is government’s responsibility to ensure that an individual does not wield such negative power over us all,” said Clr Clarke.