Between August and September 2025, Cape Town endured one of its bloodiest waves of gang violence.

More than 50 shootings in Mitchells Plain, assassinations outside courthouses, and even the killing of a two-month-old baby shocked communities into silence.

At the centre of it all, one name kept surfacing: the Fancy Boys. In this episode of Crime Central South Africa, we investigate how this so-called ‘second order’ gang rose through recruitment, defection, and ruthless expansion — disrupting the fragile balance of Cape Town’s underworld.