Mark Lifman's killing puts the spotlight on the far-reaching tentacles of Cape Town and Joburg's criminal underworld.
Mark Lifman's killing puts the spotlight on the far-reaching tentacles of Cape Town and Joburg's criminal underworld.
The suave property mogul and businessman – whose name continued to float to the surface of Cape Town’s murky underworld – was gunned down in the parking lot of the Garden Route Mall, in George, on Sunday morning. Lifman’s hit-style killing comes while he was on trial – and out on bail – for the murder of “Steroid King” Brian Wainstein.
The rugby bad boy’s name has – according to his own admission in hie biography, Bulletproof – rubbed shoulders with suspected underworld figures. Dalton has also had a few brushes with the law.Lifman murder suspects arrested near Uniondale Bezuidenhout worked for a security company providing protection services to high-profile business owners, while Jacobs is said to be a former “highly, highly trained” Special Task Force member, according to Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile.‘Johnny Bacardi’that the highly trained security official was regularly seen entering and leaving the building with “another man”, whom they now know is his co-accused.
Bezuidenhout’s social media profiles from the time, under the name “Johnny Bacardi” and long since abandoned, show his interests at the time centred on his career in the nightlife industry and mixed martial arts, with occasional references to family braais.Bezuidenhout was described as a “mixed martial arts enthusiast” who at the time of the competition worked at the late and great Springbok winger James Small’s Camps Bay restaurant and bar, Café Caprice.
The bitter rivalry between the Modack group and Lifman group resulted in years of attempted murder plots and assassinations.In an exclusive interview with News24 at the time, Modack claimed that he was the intended target of the Café Caprice attack. Safi, who at one stage also worked for slain Teazer’s strip club owner Lolly Jackson, turned state witness after a fall-out with Krejcir.wishes to make it clear at this point that James Small had no known links to or relations with any of the underworld figures featured in this article.
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