Multiple gunmen reportedly opened fire early Sunday morning about 25 miles southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, leaving at least nine dead and ten injured.
The attack at a tavern in the Bekkersdal township occurred “just before 0:100,” according to South African police.
“12 unknown suspects in a white kombi and a silver sedan opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene.”
The South African Police Service said on X:
Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations together with Crime Detection Tracing Unit have launched a manhunt for the suspects involved in a multiple shooting incident during the early hours in Bekkersdal on Sunday, 21 December 2025. The incident has resulted in nine people being killed and 10 being injured.
The incident occurred just before 01:00, at the Tambo section. It is reported that about 12 unknown suspects in a white kombi and a silver sedan opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene. The tavern is licensed.
Anyone with information that may assist with the investigation can contact SAPS #CrimeStop on 08600 10111 or send tip-offs on #MySAPSApp. NP
#sapsGP Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations together with Crime Detection Tracing Unit have launched a manhunt for the suspects involved in a multiple shooting incident during the early hours in Bekkersdal on Sunday, 21 December 2025. The incident has resulted in… pic.twitter.com/EKIed2K0mt
— SA Police Service (@SAPoliceService) December 21, 2025
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This comes as Whites continue to face genocide in the country. The identities of the perpetrators and victims are still unclear.
Per CNN:
Mass shootings are common in South Africa, which has the continent’s largest economy but also one of the world’s highest murder rates.
Murder hit a 20-year high last year; someone was killed in the country roughly every 20 minutes, according to quarterly police crime statistics from 2024.
Per CBS, this is the second mass shooting this month in South Africa, with another incident occurring on December 6 in a bar near the administrative capital city of Pretoria. At least 14 were wounded and 11 killed, including three children, ages 3,12, and 16.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump banned South Africa from attending the 2026 G20 Summit in Miami, Florida. This comes after the United States did not send top officials to the annual summit in Johannesburg this year, citing the “horrific Human Rights Abuses” endured by the White Afrikaner population in the world’s most violent country.
Trump further ended all payments and subsidies to South Africa after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa lashed out, accusing Trump of “bullying” South Africa and claiming that his third-world country is “equal” to the United States.
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