In the first 6 months of 2019, 2,000 people were killed in some parts of Cape Town, collectively known as the Cape Flats. Bishop Lavis, Mitchells Plain, Delft, Elsies River, Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Mfuleni, Philippi, Kraaifontein and Manenberg were identified as the most dangerous areas in Cape Town. allAfrica.com and Bush Radio - Africa's oldest community radio station - hosted a broadcast of a panel discussion to try and get some answers.
When ordinary people from different communities were asked why they think South Africa has such high incidence of violent crime, most said it could be attributed to drug abuse, lack of education, unemployment and poverty.
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South African National Defence Force (SANDF) have been deployed to the Cape Flats to help the police quell gang violence.
Don Pinnock says that Cape Flats communities have little faith in the ability of the police to combat rampant gangsterism.
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Gang warfare has plagued people living on the Cape Flats near Cape Town for decades. These are just some of the statistics going around at the time the military was called in: 2 000 people killed in the first half of 2019, up to 47 people murdered in stabbings and shootings in one weekend, with Bishop Lavis, Mitchells Plain, Delft, Elsies River, Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Mfuleni, Philippi, Kraaifontein and Manenberg being named as the most dangerous.
AllAfrica and Bush Radio want to know what
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Community Policing Forums have suggested several ways in which the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) can best take advantage of their deployment to the Cape Flats. This comes after the Presidency announced that the SANDF's two-month stay in crime-affected areas would be extended until March 31, 2020.
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Pleas by communities in the Western Cape for the government to deploy the army into their gang-infested areas, has finally been actioned, after a surge in gang-related deaths in the past 6 months. Communities are living in fear, children going to school or
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The Western Cape areas of Manenberg, Hanover Park, Lavender Hill, Bonteheuwel, Steenberg, Philippi,are but a few communities that are being impacted by gang violence, death, drugs and drive-by
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