Mamelodi's Shadow Killer: Hero, Monster, or the Devil in Disguise? By Mamelodi News, November 19, 2025 Dust chokes the air in Mamelodi's narrow alleys. It's 2021, and the night hums with fear. The Boko Haram gang rules like wolves, extorting shop owners for "protection" cash, smashing windows, spilling blood for fun. Foreign traders huddle in the dark, paying R300 or more just to breathe. Then, whispers spread: a ghost walks these streets. They call him "John Wick." One man. One gun. No mercy. Bullets whisper death to the gang's foot soldiers. Hope flickers in terrified eyes. But is he savior... or something far worse? It starts in August. Two thugs slump outside Santorini Club, riddled with holes, eyes wide in surprise. September: a 33-year-old enforcer drops at Mamelodi Heights Hostel, the gang's iron fortress. October brings the storm, a 30-year-old in Section K, then Mnguni on the N4 highway, his body twisted like a warning. Another falls nea...