Former Americans gang boss Kaldimola ‘Dimes’ Madatt died in a hail of bullets on Sunday in what appears to be a gang hit.
Madatt was struck 11 times while his bodyguard was also wounded in the shooting.
According to a Daily Voice source, the two left a house in North West Street in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain after Dimes is understood to have received a call that people were on their way to kill him.
The source reveals that as Dimes and his security left the house, as many as seven shooters pulled up in a white Toyota Etios and a red bakkie and opened fire.
Madatt was hit 11 times and died at the scene.
His bodyguard survived and was taken away by members of the police’s anti-gang unit.
The source says that the assassination of Dimes appears to be an “internal hit” among the Americans gang, as he was supposed to be “taken out” last Thursday already but the hitmen aborted their mission.
Meanwhile, a resident says the area is very tense as retaliation shootings are expected.
“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 says.
SAPS spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi confirms: “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 told the Daily Voice he had turned his life around more than a decade ago .