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South Africa: Little Clarity On Measuring SANDF Performance On Cape Flats
Daily Maverick, 15 August 2019
With 47 murders recorded on the Cape Flats over the most recent weekend, the South African National Civic Organisation is calling for authorities to face the music over what they… Read more »
More Than 1,000 Arrests, Army Deployed Yet Bodies Still Pile Up
The South African National Defence Force sent troops into townships in the Western Cape after communities living on the Cape Flats, held captive by gangs and their mayhem, pleaded with the ruling African National Congress to bring an end to their plight. The call was answered and the army was deployed to hotspots on late president Nelson Mandela's birthday on July 18, 2019. But has anything changed for the people living in the townships?
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South Africa: The Cape Flats Is in a State of Emergency and the SANDF Is Making It Worse
Daily Maverick, 14 August 2019
We are in a state of emergency in Cape Town, but the emergency is that our government (local and national) is clueless about what is going on on the ground on the Cape Flats. We… Read more »
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South Africa: 'More Than 1,000 People Arrested Since Army's Arrival in Western Cape'
News24Wire, 12 August 2019
Police Minister Bheki Cele says work done by the South African Police Service (SAPS), together with the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), in gang-ridden areas in the… Read more »
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South Africa: 47 Murdered in Cape Town's Deadliest Weekend Since Army's Arrival
News24Wire, 12 August 2019
Cape Town saw its deadliest weekend since the SA National Defence Force's (SANDF) deployment in crime hotspots last month, according to province's forensic statistics. Read more »
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South Africa: Cape Town's Bloody Gang Violence Is Inextricably Bound Up in Its History
The Conversation Africa, 7 August 2019
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town's inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. Read more »
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South Africa: SANDF Seen in More Cape Flats Suburbs
News24Wire, 18 July 2019
The first troops of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) have finally landed in the Cape Flats - with members of the army seen patrolling the suburbs of Manenberg and… Read more »
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South Africa: Defence Force Troops Welcomed in Manenberg
News24Wire, 18 July 2019
Seven days after the announcement that the SA National Defence Force would be deployed to Cape Town's gang-ravaged areas, soldiers on Thursday received a hero's welcome when the… Read more »
InFocus
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Dr Jino Mwaka, rector of the University of Sacred Heart in Uganda, has said at a dialogue on children trapped in violence on the Cape Flats that the concept of "child soldiers" needs to be expanded to include young people who are exposed to violence and trapped within their communities.
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South African Police Minister Bheki Cele has been told that the manner in which people are being killed in gang violence on the Cape Flats is equivalent to genocide. This comes after Minister Cele met with Mitchells Plain residents as he launched "Operation Thunder" which aims to see 269 more police force members spread across Cape Town to achieve "stabilisation and normalisation".
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The Democratic Alliance has led a march from Nyanga to Manenberg, making what the official opposition party says is their 14th call to the national government to send in the army to deal with gangsterism, drugs and violence in the Cape Flats.
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Western Cape police have launched a 72-hour action plan involving a lockdown of Philippi East and the assistance of the K9 Unit and Flying Squad members. This comes after two separate shooting incidents in the Cape Town suburb left 13 people dead in 48 hours. The incident marks the latest development in violence on the Cape Flats where the Anti-Gang Unit struggles to police areas like Hanover Park. Police Minister Bheki Cele recently extended the mandate of the Unit and elevated it to a national
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