Cape Town businessman Mark Lifman, a prominent figure in South Africa’s alleged organised crime circles, was shot and killed in the parking area of the Garden Route Mall in George on Sunday, 3 November.
He was 57.
According to the Knysna-Plett Herald, the shooting took place around 11:30 and the suspects fled in a white VW Polo with a CY registration number.
Pictures of the scene circulating on social media platforms showed a body, covered in an emergency blanket, behind a police cordon line.
No arrests have been made at the time of publishing.
Facing multiple charges
Mark Lifman was facing multiple serious charges, including murder, attempted murder, money laundering, and gang-related offences.
Lifman, security company owner Andre Naude and alleged Sexy Boys gang leader Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen, along with several others, face a number of charges linked to alleged underworld battles for the control of nightclubs.
They have been charged with the murder of ‘Steroid King’ Brian Wainstein, who was gunned down in his Constantia home in August 2017.
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