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	People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PAGAD grew as an offshoot of the Islamic organisation Qibla.
		PAGAD's campaign came to prominence in 1996 when a local gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob during a march to his home.
		In 2002, PAGAD leader Abdus Salaam Ebrahim was convicted for public violence and imprisoned for 7 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PAGAD (432 words)

	People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
		PAGAD is suspected of conducting recurring bouts of urban terrorism -- particularly bomb sprees -- in Cape Town since 1998, including nine bombings in 2000.
		PAGAD is believed to have masterminded the bombing on 25 August 1998 of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood[?].
		PAGAD is suspected of having ties to Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Middle East.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/PAGAD.html (218 words)

	Islamic Terrorism Poses a Raising Challenge for the New Democracy of South Africa
		PAGAD was formed in Cape Town in 1996 as a community anti-crime group.
		PAGAD was one outcome of this atmosphere of fear.
		PAGAD is composed of five regional branches and a number of central “departments,” or workgroups/forums.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/terror_sa.htm (2226 words)

	Vigilantism v. the State: A case study of the rise and fall of Pagad, 1996 - 2000 - ISS Paper No 99, February 2005
		Pagad was formed on the Cape Flats, the working class townships, in the same year that Mapogo was also formed at the other end of the country.
		Pagad leaders considered this as proving to the public that gangsters are not invincible.
		Pagad's overlap with religion was mostly to use it to mobilise support, to claim legitimacy for killing and extortion and to have venues for meetings.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/papers/99/Paper99.htm (9110 words)

	South Africa 2000 \| Facing Reality
		PAGAD and its alleged escapades have captured the headlines in South Africa many times in the four years since its inception.
		Whether or not PAGAD is responsible for all the bombings in which the group is suspected, it is clear the group has turned to violence rather than spirituality.
		PAGAD is not alone in its distrust of the police.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/safrica/facing/pagad.html (2777 words)

	PAGAD Blamed for Murder of South African Magistrate
		Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete told reporters that PAGAD was systematically targeting law enforcement personnel and witnesses in cases involving the organization's members.
		Lategan, a detective investigating PAGAD activities was gunned down in a shooting similar to the murder of Judge Theron.
		Five more PAGAD members accused of plotting to bomb parliament in February 1999 are also due to go on trial in November.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=480 (668 words)

	Vigilantes in South Africa Murder Suspected Drug Dealer
		PAGAD, a group linked to the Gatesville mosque, is made up mostly of conservative, working-class Muslim men and women from the Cape Flats area just east of Cape Town.
		PAGAD contends that the new government is incapable of dealing with the high crime.
		PAGAD's actions represent "a very serious backlash against the government," said Ebrahim Moosa, director of the Center for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town.
	www.ndsn.org /sept96/pagad.html (842 words)

	friendly printed version:In the Spotlight: People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
		From July 1996 to December 1997, PAGAD is alleged to have initiated 222 acts of violence against drug dealers and their property, involving attacks with conventional weapons and explosives, often pipe bombs.
		In March 2002, four current or former members of PAGAD were acquitted of the murder of gangster Rashaad Staggie in 1996 due to lack of evidence, effectively marking the end of South Africa’s five year quest to achieve a conviction for Staggie’s murder.
		PAGAD no longer enjoys the popularity it did in its heyday, but with Ebrahim in prison and the Qibla contingent fading from power, the organization may witness a return to the more moderate and accessible strategies it employed at its inception.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3211 (1210 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		PAGAD enjoyed a certain degree of impunity from the South African government, which appreciated the group’s fight against crime.
		PAGAD soon embarked on an aggressive terrorist campaign, detonating hundreds of bombs throughout Cape Town between 1996 and 2000.
		PAGAD and its allies adopted an anti-Western philosophy that is reflected in its bombing targets.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4194 (559 words)

	Gangs, Pagad & the State: Vigilantism and Revenge Violence in the Western Cape - Dixon & Johns
		Pagad, for instance, were prepared to arrange for us to talk to an official spokesperson, but it soon became obvious that we would not be able to canvass a range of views about the organisation from the inside.
		Pagad is of the view that the police can and must go into the drug dealers' houses and go and seize their possessions and do what they need to do in order to stop drug dealing.
		For Pagad then the irony is that a government whose members fought alongside Qibla in the liberation struggle have used its reputation for militancy - carefully crafted by their former foes in the apartheid regime - to discredit Pagad and proclaim them guilty by association of the cardinal sin of Muslim fundamentalism.
	www.csvr.org.za /papers/papvtp2.htm (19973 words)

	Chapter 2, The prime suspects? The Metamorphosis of Pagad - Fear in the City, Urban Terrorism in South Africa - ...
		Pagad was not the first formal anti-crime structure in the Western Cape, nor was it an organisation that appeared unexpectedly as a reaction to rising levels of crime in the region.
		The first prong of Pagad’s strategy of confrontation is directed at government incompetence — it is believed that if the government is not fulfilling the mandate of the people and is unwilling to be challenged or criticised, then people have a moral right and obligation to defend their lives and property.
		Pagad would then organise a march to the house of an identified gang leader in the community to deliver a 24-hour ultimatum stating: "We are giving you 24 hours to clean up your act, or we will come back for you".
	www.iss.co.za /Pubs/Monographs/No63/Chap2.html (10914 words)

	Pagad 'here to stay'
		Cape Town - The national secretary for People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) vowed her organisation was here to stay and that no one would be able to thwart them in their bid to take back control of the streets.
		She said the aim of the demonstration had been to draw attention to the seriousness of gang violence, drugs and prostitution and to the group's attempts at stamping it out.
		She said Pagad aimed to regain control of the streets so that people could live in peace.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1456715,00.html (315 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Pagad: Vigilantes or terrorists?
		Pagad hit the headlines in 1996 when Rashaad Staggie, co-leader of one of South Africa's most notorious criminal gangs - the Hard Livings - was shot and then burnt to death by Pagad members.
		Many Pagad members are awaiting trial on a range of charges including possessing explosives, but no one has been charged with carrying out any bombings.
		Pagad itself repeatedly denies responsibility for the attacks and says it does not condone violence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/923701.stm (410 words)

	PAGAD: A Case Study of Radical Islam in South Africa
		The patterns of militancy evident in PAGAD activities indicated the prevalence of both paramilitary-style attacks on alleged drug dealers perpetrated primarily by G-Force members, and mass marches by PAGAD supporters intended to portray the organization as a grass-roots movement.
		From July 1998 onwards PAGAD began to target academics and clerics critical of the tactics employed by its G-force.
		PAGAD’s covert activities came to a standstill with the arrest and prosecution of its prominent leaders.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369781 (1687 words)

	Islamist Extremists Suspected in Restaurant Bombing -- 11/30/1999
		Pagad was set up in 1995 as a protest organization of mixed-race Muslims angry at the spread of violence linked to drug-dealing gangs.
		Bombings attributed to Pagad include one at a waterfront branch of the U.S. Planet Hollywood restaurant chain in 1998, in which two people were killed and 26 injured.
		Pagad also has participated in protest marches aimed at the Israeli Embassy in Cape Town, and one member was killed when police dispersed an angry demonstration against the visit of British Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this year.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Try=No&Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\1998-2000\GLO19991130b.html (748 words)

	Qibla and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		PAGAD began in 1996 as a community anticrime group fighting drug lords in Cape Town's Cape Flats section.
		PAGAD is suspected in the car-bombing on 1 January of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town and the firebombing of a US-affiliated restaurant on 8 January.
		PAGAD is also believed to have masterminded the bombing on 25 August of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.
	www.milnet.com /tgp/data/quibla.htm (229 words)

	SAF - TERRORISM
		The slain magistrate had recently sentenced one PAGAD member to prison, and he was presiding over the trial of two others accused of a 1998 bombing.
		PAGAD national secretary Abidah Roberts told South African state radio the group's legal team is gathering information about the minister's comments, and may file a defamation lawsuit against Mr.
		He says 42 PAGAD members have been convicted of terrorist activity, and cases are pending against another 78.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/09/war-000911-saf.htm (829 words)

	The Hindu : PAGAD phenomenon to the fore
		The Hindu : PAGAD phenomenon to the fore
		PAGAD supporters too routinely invoke the words and symbols of ``martyrdom'' in their confrontation with the authorities - be it a routine appearance at court or a more passionate engagement against the State viewed as both illegitimate and corrupt.
		The enormous complexities of this aspect of the PAGAD phenomenon are yet to be fully grasped by the structures of the State most of which sees the phenomenon as simply terrorism, laced with the ``exoticism'' of Islam.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/12/31/stories/03310009.htm (425 words)

	PAGAD A DRAIN ON POLICE RESOURCES
		I am also concerned that the escorting of PAGAD marchers by the police tend to reinforce public perceptions that PAGAD is above the law and that its organised vigilantism is socially and politically acceptable.
		This perception can arise when the police are seen to escort PAGAD marches to the homes of persons who are rightly or wrongly accused by PAGAD of being drug lords and gangsters and when acts of violence and intimidation are committed by PAGAD members at such homes.
		PAGAD needs to reflect on the way in which it is conducting its campaign.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/1996/12170x86496.htm (515 words)

	People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		PAGAD and its Islamic ally Qibla view the South African Government as a threat to Islamic values.
		Since 2001, PAGAD’s activities have been severely curtailed by law-enforcement and prosecutorial efforts against leading members of the organization.
		PAGAD’s previous bombing targets have included South African authorities, moderate Muslims, synagogues, gay nightclubs, tourist attractions, and Western-associated restaurants.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/pagad.htm (178 words)

	SAF Bomb
		PAGAD representatives vehemently deny the organization is responsible for the bombs as well as for attacks on police and justice officials connected to criminal investigations of PAGAD members.
		PAGAD representatives say they will institute legal defamation action against him but have not yet done so.
		More than 100 members of PAGAD have been arrested on charges of violence and PAGAD national coordinator Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim was charged earlier this month with several blasts in Cape Town in 1997 and 1998.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/10/war-001018-afzaf.htm (353 words)

	Parliamentary Bulletin No2
		PAGAD - People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - catapulted the issue of violence in the Western Cape into the international headlines, with their public execution of Rashaad Staggie, leader of the Hard Living Gang.
		While the ANC sympathises with the concerns of PAGAD, we condemn the actions of individuals or small groups within PAGAD who are taking the law into their own hands.
		Mass community groups like PAGAD could make a positive contribution to fighting crime, but the actions of some elements in PAGAD in undertaking and inciting violence are only making the situation worse.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pubs/whip/whip02.html (849 words)

	Alleged Pagad attacks prompt SA clampdown- Jane's International Security News
		In custody at present are five Pagad members who allegedly plotted to blow up South Africa's Parliament, as well as alleged Pagad enforcer, Ibrahim Jenneker, and the group's leader Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim.
		Pagad national spokesman, Abida Roberts said that if implemented, the legislation would violate human rights and go against South Africa's constitution and the Bill of Rights.
		He said Pagad was mobilising countrywide and not only Muslims were being targeted "but everyone who is opposed to this draconian bill".
	www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jiaa/jiaa001019_1_n.shtml (718 words)

	Mixed-Race Gang Warfare Rages in Cape Town, South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Pagad has denied it madeany threats against the minister.
		Tension has been rising in Cape Town'simpoverished, mixed-race suburbs since masked Pagad members shot and burnedto death the leader of the Hard Living Kids, a gang with about 3,000 members.The gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was killed in front of his house on Aug.4.
		But Edries is a leaderin Pagad, which has threatened to wage a "holy war" on gangs andsays there is no difference between gangs and the police.
	www.americancivilrightsreview.com /dvafricasouth.html (383 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		The minister warned that PAGAD posed a serious threat and again blamed the four-year-old Islamic group for more than 110 bombings in and around the city, as well as for the murder of a city magistrate last week.
		Addressing a special briefing in parliament, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said that it was plain to "an obvious and keen observer of facts" that PAGAD was behind the bombing, but he admitted that finding proof was hard.
		PAGAD spokesperson Gulaam Allie Wednesday angrily denied the movement's involvement: "As yet, they [government] have given us not a shred of evidence linking PAGAD to any of these acts of terror but they have consistently accused us of these."
	www.islamonline.net /IOL-english/dowalia/news-2000-sep-14/topnews7.asp (462 words)

	IOL: Not guilty verdict sets Pagad men free
		Five Pagad members tearfully hugged and kissed each other after they were acquitted in the Cape High Court of the murders of three alleged drug dealers.
		Speaking to the Cape Argus on Monday, Sapat and Burton said they were Pagad members, but denied they would be party to violence to further the group's aims.
		They had not expected to be acquitted of the murder charges because of what they described as the "strong bias" against Pagad.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050308103343342C766894 (687 words)

	ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Cape Town - Western Intelligence organisations are said to be keeping a close eye on Cape-based anti-drug group Pagad amid allegations that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is funding the organisation, according to reports in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst (IAA).
		However, as South Africa has a relationship with Libya, Lehloesa stated that if Pagad were receiving funding from the country, the matter would be discussed with them.
		However, IAA asserts that South Africa's intelligence services have already tried to establish to what extent Gaddafi is involved in funding Pagad and are also probing who paid for the 400 Pagad-linked volunteers to join the Palestinian Intifada (uprising) in the Middle East.
	www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=2776 (649 words)

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