{"id":322792,"date":"2026-01-22T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322792"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:00:29","slug":"south-africa-gun-violence-justice-department-confirms-fatal-shooting-at-booysens-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322792","title":{"rendered":"South Africa gun violence: Justice Department confirms fatal shooting at Booysens Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/nationalcitizen.co.za\/public\/posts\/26012024257Booysens%20Magistrate%20Court.jpeg\" alt=\"Fatal Shooting at Booysens Magistrates Court Leaves Two Dead\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GAUTENG (South Africa), Jan 22 (NNN-SANEWS) &#8212; The Justice and Constitutional Development department has confirmed a fatal shooting incident at the Booysens Magistrates\u2019 Court in Gauteng on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident claimed the lives of at least two people while three others were left injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident is the latest in a growing trend of violence at judicial facilities, with similar incidents occurring at the Athlone, Mitchells Plain and Wynberg Magistrates Courts in the Western Cape and another incident at Melmoth Court in KwaZulu-Natal \u2013 all in the span of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development has learnt with serious concern of [the] shooting incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe law enforcement agencies are attending to the situation. At this stage, it has been reported that five people were shot, with two fatalities,\u201d a department statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minister Andries Nel said the Ministry is awaiting further verified details from law enforcement agencies and court management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry condemns this incident and will work with the relevant security and law enforcement authorities to ensure that all necessary measures are implemented to safeguard court users and personnel,\u201d the statement read. &#8212; NNN-<strong>SA<\/strong>NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAUTENG (South Africa), Jan 22 (NNN-SANEWS) &#8212; The Justice and Constitutional Development department has confirmed a fatal shooting incident at the Booysens Magistrates\u2019 Court in Gauteng on Tuesday. The incident claimed the lives of at least two people while three others were left injured. The incident is the latest in a growing trend of violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322795,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322792\/revisions\/322795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}