This is sad as yet another mass gang shooting claimed the life of five, leaving two seriously injured.

BEAST OF NEWS made this known on his Twitter handle @EversonLuhanga when he said that "BREAKING NEWS: Five people have been killed and two Seriously Injured in another mass shooting. This time at the Thembelihle informal settlement at Lenasia South of Johannesburg. The gunmen fire randomly at people on the street".

Source and Link:@EversonLuhanga Twitter handle

This brings to at least 32 the number of people killed in five mass shootings that have rocked the country in just the past week.


This excludes the Enyobeni tavern deaths in the Eastern Cape, in which 22 teenagers died after being apparently gassed to death.

Read: Man shot and killed outside the Tavern in Khayelitsha.


Police confirmed the shooting to Scroll.

According to officers at the scene, the gunmen opened fire randomly.

One resident said the men who opened fire didn't target anyone but shot at everyone. "I am still terrified. I have never seen anything like it," he said, asking that his name not be mentioned.

The Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela and other senior police officials were conducting O Kae Molao in Alexandra when they received information about another mass shooting in Thembelihle, South of Johannesburg.