DA Western Cape says shooting sprees claiming 13 lives are a symptom of the illegal firearm trade [SOUND]

# The DA in the Western Cape has strongly condemned the wave of gun violence that claimed the lives of 13 people across the province over the weekend. Police are investigating two separate shooting incidents in Makhaza and Endlovini, Harare, in which six men were killed within hours of each other. Seven were killed in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch. The DA’s Benedicta van Minnen says these brutal killing sprees point to a grim structural reality facing provincial law enforcement: