Daily Sun (October 21 2013) - IT was a ten-hour rampage fuelled by years of rage. Residents joined hands, fighting to take back control of their kasi from the Wrong Turn gang. AND BY SUNSET FIVE HOUSES AND TWO SHACKS HAD BEEN BURNT TO THE GROUND.
The meeting of residents from Eatonside, Tshepong and zone 7, Sebokeng, in the Vaal, south of Joburg, held a public meeting in Eatonside on Saturday morning to talk about attacks last week which reportedly left several people injured.
When Daily Sun arrived at the meeting emotions were already running high and then the residents launched what became a violent 10-hour manhunt. "We're sick and tired of thugs ruling our areas. Enough is enough," said a resident.
The mother of a victim of an attack by the Wrong Turn gang said: "I will help hunt them down even if it means I don't sleep tonight. They almost killed my son."
Hundreds of young men and women surged through the streets burning down several houses and shacks as they searched for gangsters belonging to the Wrong Turn gang. According to residents, the Wrong Turns are a group of more than 50 hooligans in their teens or early 20s. They have all been to initiation schools and terrorise people as they roam the streets at night. Members of the gang are reportedly responsible for several attacks on community members using pangas and machetes.
Residents started in Tshepong, where they torched a house believed to be a gang hideout. The mob also broke the windows of two other houses in the area known to be the homes of Wrong Turn members. Then they went to Eatonside, where three more houses and a shack where torched.