Rashied Staggie

Rashied Staggie (1961 - 13 December 2019 He was shot and killed in Salt River on 13 December 2019, The Staggie brothers were killed in the same street, London Road. Staggie was sentenced to 15 years for kidnapping and rape.

Staggie has been called "one of the last of the Cape Flats' OG's (old gangsters)" and through his tenure, the Hard Livings gang had grown internationally, even being interviewed by the BBC. The Staggie brothers were the main subjects in a BBC documentary called Beloved Country - Cape of Fear. It is through this documentary that the brothers got international attention.

Early years Rashied was born in the Cape Town suburb of Mooirivier in 1961. The Group Areas Act created forced removals of coloured peoples from so called white areas to a less desirable part of town. The Cape Flats became a place where more than a million displaced coloured and black people were relocated. Rashied's family were moved to Manenberg, poverty stricken and without access to proper infrastructure and services. Due to the pressures of this poverty and hard living, Rashied and his brother Rashaad resorted to petty crime for survival. After 1994 he stayed in Boston, Bellville, in the Western Cape South Africa.

Criminal career

By the time the twins were teenagers they were drug dealers. As they got older they became more aggressive and influential in the Cape Town underworld. By the 1990s the twins were notorious gang leaders and their gang the Hard Livings had members all around the Cape Peninsula. The Hard Livings gang participated in crimes such as armed robbery, dealing of guns and drug distribution. Under the rule of Rashied Staggie, the Hard Livings took part in gang wars that led to a bloodbath in the streets of Cape Town thereafter stopped by the intervention of the Rasool Family Mafia Organization.

Death On the morning of Friday, 13 December 2019, Rashied Staggie was sitting in a friend's Toyota Corolla sedan outside his home in the area of Salt River, Cape Town when two assailants approached the vehicle and shot at him numerous times. He was confirmed dead on arrival at the nearby Groote Schuur Hospital. Staggie's daughter, Ingrid Carolus, came out of their house two hours after the shooting, screaming: "He's dead, he's dead!" The shooting occurred after another Hard Livings leader, Ballie Tips, was shot and killed in Mitchells Plain the previous night. Staggie was killed in the same street, London Road, where his twin brother and fellow gangster, Rashaad Staggie was shot and burned alive by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) members in 1996. No one has been arrested yet.