Asanda Baninzi operated in the townships and suburbs of Cape Town in the winter of 2001. He was born in 1983 and was eighteen that winter.
Between June and August of that year he shot eighteen people. Among them were a family of four killed in their home, including a ten-year-old girl and her teenage sister. The rest were men and women shot in the street and in houses across the Cape Flats.
The victims named in the accessible record are Moegamat Brand, Ryan Masetu, Mqibalo Mnisi, Nceba Faltein, Siseko Nxu, Richard Dantjies, Faith Qwelane, Ayanda Bokweni, Linda Mbabisa, Lent Ndzoto and Nolwandle Nkutshu. The family of four are not named in it.
He confessed after arrest, which is how the majority of the counts were made out.
He was convicted and sentenced first to five life terms and then, on May 5, 2004, to nineteen life terms plus 189 years for the full set of charges. It is among the longest sentences imposed in South Africa.