Cutting Edge I Inside the notorious KwaMashu hostel

Cutting Edge takes you inside the notorious KwaMashu hostel where murder is the order of the day.
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[@pasekawahakgiba5659]

Ephesians 6v12 :For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

[@Tee-kay991]

Cutting Edge always gives you real stories ❤❤

[@TheZuluman7]

This is probably the same place where AKA killers where hired from . The councillor is definitely right sone cops are working hand in hand with these criminals.

[@thetower5184]

i blame ANC for this government with lots of rights even more for the criminals and killers

[@williamshakur8715]

What different between tkzn and Cape town?

[@thetower5184]

@@williamshakur8715 M TALKING ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA

[@ayandabanks2872]

@@williamshakur8715 KZN is safer😂

[@ayandabanks2872]

@@thetower5184 I believe he was highlighting the different governments

[@sandilemfeka4658]

I'm sure you also blame the ANC for the gangsterism in the Cape flats.

[@nokwandangubane3928]

This is not a place to live with kids🤞

[@thabomadonsela4824]

Change Cele and police will be well

[@ayandadlamini9266]

SAPS is mostly behind the tipping, commiting and also behind these people doing these notorious acts.

[@bonisaninhonho11]

SAPS is nothing it's politicians are behind this bro trust me

[@SbusisoKwanele-ip9lz]

Sandf should be deployed here to maintain stability

[@NokulungaMagubane]

Mawbona i poyisa ubanethemba kant lona liyaz lithi lala laza ngizokwengula😢 kunzima

[@tonnymtumtum]

I stay in Entuzuma, I have a lift club that passes here to pick someone here, it's very very bad, scary place, I've seen more than 10 people shot in my life time and it was all in this place

[@Shalom491]

Black on black crime, quite disturbing but not surprising in South Africa.

[@carcher3279]

This is more to do with poverty than with race.

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

@@carcher3279 exactly, been to that place many times and the poverty is real

[@kaizersuze9000]

It's getting worse every day it's a shame 😢

[@darianharold2228]

Swaziland is a million x poorer but you don't find crimes like this, especially at the levels of violence in SA. KZN is full of violent people. Life is not precious in KZN

[@BongaShezi-vb2zw]

I can relate because i worked in the murder unit concentrating on murders in that hostel, very traumatic

[@edwardmborero]

Why don't you Also interview the police minister with direct questions regarding this in the same video or a follow up one so we can really understand wht he think about the situation.......if this was eff marching the whole army will be deployed....n now this is nonsense I there is people that are allowing it to happen 😢

[@sphamandla77nqubeko80]

❤❤❤❤

[@alakhememela4033]

Why don’t the police raid the whole area, with a heavily armed task unit or SANDF

[@pressbutton5101]

It will interfere with their business interest

[@user-zv8bb6uq4n]

Mna ndihlalakhona bro ngeke alunge amapolisa kwaMashu eHostela nokwenza......nawo ayoyika

[@simphiwemkhize9475]

And NIU in the mix

[@musacj]

There's always going to be a policyman/woman who tells the criminals before police even reach there.

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

That was done twice and it didn't work. The tip off are real from all parastatals as these hitmen also work for politicians, business men, mafias and MK

[@ashlycone7155]

Saps are the biggest syndicate in this issues

[@ayandabanks2872]

100%

[@nckh7]

Thank you cutting edge for sharing this hidden important information.

[@dankiemathebula9918]

Why the government not destroy this hostel

[@bonisaninhonho11]

Ask yrself how did they got those Guns before you wish for the last thing 😂😂😂

[@nkosingiphiledlamini2678]

Where will the innocent go?

[@princemothiba799]

Give this job to a private company and see

[@thembamsibi7424]

This happens under Cele's watch

[@bakoena82]

Even before his watch..this started way back.

[@miygobrown2419]

I grew up in Newlands East, its just as bad manje. Kwamashu has always been dangerous, like i remember getting robbed at the bridge kwa L and that used to be a very dangerous bridge to pass

[@blckcharma2623]

Askie broe mina hlala kwa L

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

@@blckcharma2623 eyi eLondon sakhula kuyi ghost. Mina ngikwaD.

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

East has drug issues now broe

[@miygobrown2419]

@@RastaAfricanGentleman I got stabbed in mdansane....back in the day, the number was heavy there

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

@@miygobrown2419 Jah I see in the news that Eastern Cape is thr most dangerous province on murder stats. Vese futhi nenombolo iqalwe umZulu, umXhosa neMpondo. There is a reason why criminals are dangerous in KZN and EC

[@Thisisdangererous]

Thank you Bheki Cele for these crime stats

[@nathixaba6306]

That hostel was a safest place in kwamashu early late 90's.I remember I used to work there at night alone using a companies vehicle.But when work opportunities faded things changed over time

[@user-zu5lc2sk3v]

What is the useless minister of police saying about this?

[@brendangxabazi1340]

Akusekubi kazi sophila phi Jesu

[@Matthew6thirty3]

Jesus Christ is the only savioir of your soul

[@nonhlanhlamolefe-langa5100]

Really its better to change this hostel to be a house family dwelling

[@gugukhambule7902]

I grew up kuleli hostela I know the ins and out it The trauma we faced wen growing up is unbearable from the ifp days, towards ifp,nfp, to ifp- anc My parents still stay there in those grey flats kusekhaya laphana but the killings are beyond Raids by the soldiers have been done over and over but no change

[@BonganiMagadu]

What causes it in your opinion

[@sakhumzisamueldlanjwa1839]

Am sure ustrong mbokodo😊❤

[@gugukhambule7902]

@@BonganiMagadu these ppl most of them come from the same villages so kuyaliwa or kwakunezimpi so wen they meet they settle I score sakudala Or wen they form a gang according izigodi and surnames or clans it becomes a thing then they have to prove kuthi bona their untouchable What's scary is that women always get caught up in the middle so wen they kill they dnt choose ukuthi umama or ubaba or ingane.......laphana u have to mind your own business if u know too much uyafa so act like the damnest person u will sure survive like we did but it wasn't easy........I can go on and on yoh

[@gugukhambule7902]

@@sakhumzisamueldlanjwa1839 ngenkani growing up surrounded by bloodshed became normal for me that even fear was just a thing nje.......we survived by God's grace

[@mzamomkhize8010]

Kunzima kule ndawo. @gugu I feel your pain.

[@thandwayinkosidube-lc4mn]

I hope NIU izongenelela la

[@sbusisongobese3349]

Ngazi kwelakithi siyophela nini isibhamu

[@melbournezondi1489]

nothing can be done we are doomed.. the easiest thing to do in south africa is to procure an illegal firearm..... people live in adverse poverty and there are no jobs... what is a young person that grew up witnessing all this violence going to become when they grow up???? who are his roles models, are they taught morals and respect for other human beings??? the cycle will unfortunately continue and that will be the dimes of our beloved country.. 😢😢😢😢

[@incredibleworld-zz3cy]

Akudzilitwe leHostel once

[@pontshomashishidonald2573]

Ngeke siye kwaMashu sisaba mavolovolo we ma..sisaba Mavolovolo we ma volovooolo Volo Volo Volo we ma

[@waltertshaile3556]

Is this a song, which people sang it?

[@ThandoNdlovu-km2jp]

​@@waltertshaile3556platform 1

[@VusiIrvinMthimunye]

​@@waltertshaile3556 Platform One

[@noluvuyomthetho897]

UYACULA NJALO😅😅😅😅

[@SibusisoZwane-wj2bj]

Lengoma yomshado indala.shuthi into endala yevolovolo kulendawo

[@Fres-no]

The robbers are killing the securities for their guns.......WHAAAAAt?

[@neomahlangu4073]

The Zulu community needs to have an honest conversation amongst themselves about the “Inkabi” culture. It’s normalized at this point

[@lorramokoka7778]

This is bad where do they get illegal guns from

[@Thulz.]

These are mostly young people who are into drugs doing all this

[@chanelnyika965]

It’s even praised in the media these days e.g the wife

[@juniorkhuzwayo9734]

dont promote tribalism wena slima...this is not a "zulu thing".... its a CRIMINAL thing

[@siyabongamlaba8979]

What about colourds and Xhosas in the Western Cape

[@athenkosintlemeza7862]

This is frightening to watch. How about those that are in the firing line. We need to install security cameras all around these so-called hot spots. Installers need to be escorted by heavily armed SANDF personnel. We also need to employ drones for first responders to have a clue what's happening at crime scenes even before they arrive.

[@carcher3279]

Assuming that the resources even exist with which to do all of that.

[@masibulelemnguni6554]

And stop driving their BMW's ?

[@jefreyeffy4065]

South Africa under the African African national Congress is a disaster vote them out finish and klaar

[@vuyisileedward1218]

So these killers must be caught and send to jail while they have killed so many people.... isn't that death penalty already to innocent people..

[@nqobileqinisoradebe5356]

Isigwebo sentambo sikhumbuleka uma sekunjena

[@moeketsiramosana5742]

Kanjani ngoba lezi igebengu aziboshwa?

[@kwaziemtungwa-vb3iv]

​@@moeketsiramosana5742kube bayabulawa kube abukho bafoe loba ngabe ngibazi koba nzima ukuthi ngibakhombe ngoba umthetho uzobadedela

[@chumza7498]

This is heart breaking im from Cape town but the level of killings in this hostel is to much

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

30 October 2023, my friend was hijacked and his car was found here. Hijacked by 20 year old boys. It's true the cops work with criminals here because the car was found at the usual spot after certain phone calls were made

[@wandiletembe]

ANC Banana Republic. Nothing will save us.

[@konkehwanqa6260]

Bayazana abanye izinto zasemakhaya okunye ubugebengu nje obudalwa ukuthi abantu abasebenzi nemjondolo le esayagcwala emahostela nayo inomthelela omkhulu, Kodwa nje kakhulu izimpi zasemakhaya zinomthelela kokunye

[@SphaMagwaza]

Umashu udoti wendawo ,I used to visit the place during school holidays

[@kwaziemtungwa-vb3iv]

I think they should bring SA army to search everyhouses

[@xonganichauke3011]

The 'O Block' of RSA.

[@JayXjaey]

Its really giving chiraq vibes

[@annateller341]

I was thinking the same too😢

[@nthabix]

I always thought Cape Flats are like hostels

[@asthersamlal7832]

This guy is right,the police actually makes you a suspect yet you the one opening the case

[@nathanielncube7593]

Asimpilo leyi kanti umthetho waseSouth Africa unjani ngempela abantu bahlale ngokusaba

[@sibusisobrian5038]

Haaa ngeke ufakaze aboshwe aphume nge bail mase kwenzekalani

[@welcomenxumalo5463]

Angfis lutho ngaleyo ndawo ngakhulela kuyo namanje i cant heal 😢

[@nonhlanhlamolefe-langa5100]

Amaphoyisa photo ukuthi okubi zifa ngamvunye .amanye ayasebenza sengathi wonke lamaphoyisa ayizigebengu nawo angafa kabuhlungu ezwe into abayizwisa nomndeni eminingi

[@nkosikhonainnocent2882]

Ofakazi bayabulawa yingakho wonke muntu esaba

[@phalengholdings8239]

where is ngizwe mchunu cos he said he owns kzn? ngizwe makahambe ayo lamula pha e hostela

[@SpookMathambo]

The government must turn hostels to family dwellings.

[@philanindaba8848]

True when men are alone in groups they become dangerous and have nothing to lose or protect

[@mmolokimabogo9368]

If only buthelezi "the murderer"'s dream came true. Kzn should be a country on its own. Those people are dangerous hle yooh!!

[@mamshengutshabalala6801]

What dream?

[@mmolokimabogo9368]

He wanted the homeland of Natal not be part of a new South Africa.

[@BonganiMagadu]

​@@mmolokimabogo9368😅😂😂

[@user-hh6ei9ji1n]

​@@mmolokimabogo9368Please don't distort the history...Buthelezi was offered that by the apartheid regime and he refused hence KZN was never a bantustan like Bophuthatswana and Ciskei

[@Miss_Maya_ZA]

That was his black on black crime?

[@mphathelenimudau7305]

I will never visit KZN ever

[@konkehwanqa6260]

Don't worry KZN is safe crime is normal like other provinces

[@km4336]

​@konkehwanqa6260 Exactly, e.g Cape Flats

[@moeketsiramosana5742]

Lol, ihaba!

[@BenNjapha]

Crime is everywhere in this country

[@williamshakur8715]

The is no different between kzn and Cape town?

[@zukozuko9690]

Eish

[@noluvuyomthetho897]

Same whatsapp group

[@pakamaninasewu]

The ANC is the cause of the situation what do you expect when people live like this

[@nkanyezilogistics]

Build 2 factories supplying toilet paper to government hospitals and buildings and see if you'll get any crime the

[@ayandabanks2872]

I really don't understand why it is so difficult for government to that? Create factories that will supply government departments and other countries with everything from a toothbrush to a bed. They are busy ngoR350, changing street lights that work, demolishing and rebuilding the same rdps, buying old people groceries once every 5 years, cutting grass, flags that light at night and claiming billions for it, how does that help us in the long run???😏. I am not an EFF fan but I love the policies on in sourcing - it's brilliant!!!👏🏿 and for that they might have my vote.

[@nkanyezilogistics]

@@ayandabanks2872 I come to believe that they don't want too.

[@ayandabanks2872]

These old people are costing us, they will die soon and leave us with an overly indebted country that owns nothing.

[@lubabalomhlontlo3517]

Killers won’t just change because there are jobs , they will just kill the people working on those factories . It easy for these people to kill someone than to go look for work somewhere. We all know there are no jobs in South Africa but that is not an excuse to kill people.

[@thabisowayne9861]

This hostel kusanda kufa a close schoolmate

[@ThokozaniMatukane]

Like this drama. We need help to get ament

[@njabulondlovu-db9gq]

Mmmmm kubi lokho kubulawa kwabantu bezosiza umphakathi

[@Aunty_Leboo]

What's scary is thay we live among these people also in the Johannesburg cbd😢. They are infiltrating Joburg/Gauteng now

[@sphelelenkosi7148]

NIU is the last solution in these instances

[@nthabix]

What is that

[@DumisaniNgema-hz9iv]

Kunzima nami umfowethu wasala khona ibolile leya ndawo😠😠😠

[@thato596]

kzn is mess. But they busy promoting this violence on uzalo and some mzansimagic tv shows

[@aifhelimaano8678]

Its an agenda, a hidden one and only few eyes will realize it.

[@nonhlanhlazia5995]

Correct! They're busy promoting this violence on Uzalo and other Mzantsi magic they teach the young star all this mess

[@mzansipunters4295]

Even known criminals are travelling in convoys escourted by bodyguards not even in uniforms carrying automatic assault weapons, to me that's arrogance and police doing nothing.

[@peekaymadaiz21]

"South Africa is a mess" aluqonde ulimu Wena

[@BonganiMagadu]

​@@mzansipunters4295For real? 😮😢

[@vezivezi6132]

The same scared people will vote for ANC.....the status quote continues 😅😅😅😅😅

[@undjivangaopperman-kavezer5928]

The truth is laws can be changed and soldiers sent to callect all illegal firearms in SA, its doable.

[@chef_leendour]

Exactly!..the same way soldiers were sent out to take back what people stole from looting including food..

[@nthabix]

Our army failed in the Cape Flats

[@mlungisimbhele4108]

Ave ihlupha lemfikathekwini egcwele emahostela

[@marvelmthembuvee2593]

In lieutenant Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi we trust ✊🏽

[@nkanyezilogistics]

But if people live in these conditions what do you expect

[@lubabalomhlontlo3517]

We must expect people to kill innocent lives ? I don’t understand your reasoning, people working together can overcome poverty . I’m rural areas in the Eastern Cape people do not have jobs but instead they grow food to survive . You can’t tell me to have something to eat you have to kill someone , that is just what these people want . They want to be feared and take instead of working and providing. I hate this one way of looking at things , innocent people die because we say they are living in bad conditions. Killing people is not making anything better it’s making it worse

[@tshepisozaster9795]

So are you saying they must kill others

[@wisemanshinga8994]

Yonke lento iyophela tha day kungena uMinister of Police ozosebenza not uMabhiza 🤞

[@BHEKITHEMBANkOSINGIPHILE-so1tb]

Kuyafiwa Lana nsukuzonke angazi why bangayidilize lento bawakhele izindlo Abantu abahlale lana

[@NokuthulaMkhize-vq9jm]

Ungalinge mtanomuntu, bayokudayisa labo abathembekile kutshele hhaaa😢

[@SaneleChristobel-es2gd]

Wayaphi unembeza kubantu😓

[@SibusisoZwane-wj2bj]

Waqedwa idakamizwa.intsha yamanje ifana nezilwane eziyingozi

[@divinityorg]

😢

[@siya1175]

Ive been stranded twice over here at night all because of utshwala dont know how I made it out at night cz thats when things are bad over there .

[@khulekanimlungisi3652]

Ikwasathane la impilo yomuntu ifana neyempukane because eyenkukhu awumane uyithathe and makufe umuntu kusuke sekuphelile futhi akekho umuntu oboshwayo

[@justpassby3973]

They need a special force to bleksem almal van die julle

[@YG-nq9yc]

Jy is korrekte

[@nthabix]

Our army failed with the Cape Flats😢

[@zenzelexulu2967]

Why uhulumeni ehlulwa ukudiliza lehostel

[@sandilentshangase621]

But what can you expect when people live in such poverty 🤔

[@jabulanisello9116]

You can also thank the IFP for this gun culture. This nonsense has spilled over to Gauteng. There by George Goch and other hostels, it's the same situation.

[@inganathizwane3015]

DAVEYTONE hostel behind DAVEYTONE Mall near MABUYA secondary school the are drug lords drug are manufactured by hostel people police know and does nothing about it because themselves are Involved in crime you find that their in partnership with them just help come up with solutions we in danger

[@MzomkhuluNkwanyana]

Angifisi leyondawo uGogo wami wabulawelwa umjondolo

[@thobanigumedemargin4372]

Hauuu nakhu ekhaya

[@vusumuzimathumo-githendu6949]

Are there nice girls there

[@user-qp1yq1ke7i]

I'm even afraid to comment....f**ck I've commented 😢

[@jamemule5326]

You still alive

[@blakshatta4093]

These Zimbabweans

[@Dwaynesk]

😂😂😂

[@phalengholdings8239]

kzn is a aplace that i will never set my foot at. i do not like that place at all cos they are even killing people in gauteng

[@ncamsilepatience3172]

I wonder lona leli conseller lisekhona yn ??kwaze kwanzima

[@amandajekwa9468]

Nami I'm so worried about him..

[@melusindlovu4880]

I'm not sure how this Indian guy how he became a police, he is not giving us a hope but he is very scared of is happening. Umayiphoyisa give us an action plan since some officer have friends there

[@RastaAfricanGentleman]

Phoyisa liyasaba ngoba Hostel lingasePolice Steshi Bhuti, ayabulawa amaphoyisa asebenza ngempela eHostela and badayiswa ozakwabo

[@BhalaneDlamini]

Another problem

[@Percyndlovu-tx6uh]

Aphi amasoja kubulawa abantu ngoba asinamaphoisa

[@nthabix]

Bahlulwe ukulungisa iCape Flats when they were deployed

[@lindanzama3719]

Mina cela ningipha number yenkabi

[@matruhngcemu3325]

Mhlampe SANDF ingaxazulula

[@gugukhambule7902]

They use to come but akusizi I grew up khona the killings are beyond control laphana😢

[@nthabix]

They failed with the Cape Flats

[@SeipatiConstance-ls1qi]

ke y

[@tshepomahlaba5541]

Why Zulu people keep on killing each other? Mxm

[@YG-nq9yc]

Almal moet doodmaak die boer???

[@mustafamusa9230]

War

[@BonganiMagadu]

All along when I heard the name Kwamashu hostel I always assumed it's a single building like one block of flats. I didn't know it's more like a whole township Could someone please educate me the historical reasons for these so called hostels to produce these killers Why would anyone murder security guards who are escorting technicians who are fixing a cell tower? It just doesn't make sense to me 😢😮 Were these hostels violent in say the 80s?

[@InjulaSamson]

they became violent after Gatsha buthelezi worked with apartheid goverment they gave IFP weapons through the hostels

[@jonathan9256]

I also thought it was one block of flats. They murder the guards just to take their firearms

[@mzamomkhize8010]

There are too much guns in this area.

[@mzamomkhize8010]

SA army should raid this place..from this hostel all the way to E Nanda kwa Bester.

[@vusumuzimathumo-githendu6949]

​@mzamomkhize8010 hahaha haha kwa bester is that where thabo bester comes from

[@humphreymahlangu-mz1kg]

Let the president appoint SADF so that they can work with police and Finish this matter

[@amandajekwa9468]

The SADF is still tired recovering from chasing us for not wearing masks

[@EllenMatloha-ys5jg]

I'm 1😂🎉🎉😮😅

[@xololusandalonwabombatha4643]

If I were these companies sending teams to fix electricity or that cellphone tower incident. I would do it. Why risk innocent people's lives to help ungreatful animals mxm