This is the moment police stormed into the homes of suspected gang members amid a crackdown in Cape Town.

Late last Friday (February 1), the recently formed Anti Gang Unit raided homes in Mitchell’s Plain in Cape Flats. Members of the unit break down the door and suspects are made to lie on the floor while police searched the apartment.

The crackdown on gang violence follows President Cyril Ramaphosa’s launch of an Anti-Gang Unit aimed at forming part of a coherent strategy combatting gang violence.

83% of South Africa’s gang related murder occurs in the Western Cape, with one officer for every 509 residents

With ongoing gang violence in south africa, especially the cape flats. President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a special Anti Gang Unit as part of a strategy to combat gang violence and the drug trade.

The unit was launched in November and has since been raiding homes, drug dens and hideouts of south africa's most notorious gangsters.

On Friday, 01 February the unit raided homes in Mitchell's Plain on the Cape Flats