Ex-gang boss shot dead
FORMER Americans gang boss Kaldimola “Dimes” Madatt died in a hail of bullets on Sunday in what appeared to be a gang hit.
The 56-year-old was struck 11 times and his bodyguard was wounded.
According to a source, the two left a house in North West Street in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain after Dimes, it is understood, received a call that people were on their way to kill him.
The source revealed that as Dimes and his security left the house, about seven men pulled up in a white Toyota Etios and a red bakkie and opened fire.
Madatt died at the scene. His bodyguard was taken away by members of the police’s anti-gang unit.
The source said the assassination of Dimes appeared to be an “internal hit” among the Americans gang, as he was supposed to be “taken out” last Thursday but the hitmen aborted their mission.
Meanwhile, a resident said the area was tense as retaliation shootings were anticipated.
“A lot of people from all over came to the crime scene but the area is now very volatile, and the police have also already shut down all the taverns so that people don’t come in and out,” he said.
SAPS spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi said: “Mitchells Plain police responded to a complaint on Sunday 6 November. Upon arrival in Monsoon Road at around 12.45pm, they found the body of a 56-year-old male who sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The unknown suspects are yet to be arrested.
“The motive for the attack is gang-related. Mitchells Plain police are investigating a case of murder.”
Madatt is the brother of convicted drug dealer and diamond smuggler Moegamat Sadaka Madatt, an alleged Americans gang boss.
A self-confessed former drug dealer, Dimes had allegedly closed a church in Rocklands in 2010, and turned it into a shebeen. When his daughter was killed in 2020, he said he had turned his life around more than a decade ago.