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Original Post Date: 2008-03-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
For many years, people associated with the infamous Elite Security Group have struck terror into the hearts of nightclub owners and clubbers. Often referred to as the “bouncer industry” or “Gauteng Mafia”, they have been linked to drugs, protection rackets and violence – and yet they have carried on with impunity.
But now their reign of terror is coming to an end, as the hundreds of hours of dogged investigations by the crack police unit set up to deal with bouncers bear fruit.
So far this year, Director Piet Byleveld and his hand-picked team of detectives have arrested 50 people connected to the Elite Security Group and the Hell’s Angels biker gang, which both have close links to the bouncer industry.
Late last year, over a period of a fortnight, the police arrested 14 former Elite members in connection with bouncer violence and drug trafficking. Some of the cases under investigation, which include murder, serious assault and intimidation, date to 2002.
During the raids they also seized large quantities of the deadly and highly addictive drug tik and a large quantity of ephedrine and other chemicals and equipment used in the illegal manufacturing of the drug, as well as a firearm, ammunition and schedule medicines. The value of all the drugs and equipment seized amounted to about R500 000.
The Special Investigations Unit has been tasked with investigating violent crimes committed by various bouncer groups and other members of Gauteng’s bouncer fraternity.
Four years ago, Bradley Silberman, then 22, found out just how violent bouncers can be when he went to the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Rivonia to celebrate the end of exams. He ended up fighting for his life after he intervened when bouncers tried to evict a friend of his from the club. He was assaulted so severely that he had to undergo emergency brain surgery. Another of his friends, Bradley Seweitz, suffered a broken nose in the attack.
Tiger Tiger owner Ashley Ginder was subsequently arrested, and, two years later, sentenced to two years in jail or a fine of R25 000 for the November 14 2004 assault on Silberman.
Ginder’s case is just one of several that have featured in Gauteng’s courts over the past six years. In early 2003, members of the Elite group were accused of the gruesome murder of bouncer Patrick Caetano at the Kyalami Business Park after CCTV cameras filmed two men hacking and gouging him with a butcher’s knife, in what was believed to be a revenge killing.
Elite bouncers were in trouble again in 2004 when 70 men rampaged through a Boksburg bar, smashing windows and tables and beating up at least three patrons. The attack was allegedly the result of a territorial dispute.
And in 2005, Lolly Jackson, the owner of Teazers strip club, laid a charge of intimidation against two senior members of Elite, Riaan Carelse – who was subsequently acquitted – and Elite founding member Jacques Hugo, after they allegedly threatened to kill him and rape his wife.
Then, last week, Byleveld and his team swooped again, this time arresting three alleged kingpins in the bouncer industry.
Brothers Jacques and Deon Willemse were wanted in connection with an armed robbery in Sophiatown. Byleveld has previously arrested another brother of the two men, Gillie Willemse, on drugs-related charges.
And only two days earlier they arrested Theuns Grobbelaar, a founder of the Elite group and an alleged organised-crime boss.