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She told The Cape Times the army should again be called in to help with gang violence, despite Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa shooting her suggestion down.

“There is nothing 'populist' about my call to bring in the army to restore calm so that the police can get on with investigative policing.

“The army was deployed last Christmas in comparable conditions and it worked well, and without fuss, without these kind of accusations.”

Zille said when the ANC was in power of the province, it brought in the army in similar circumstances.

“So I find it difficult to understand the fuss now. Perhaps we should ask who is being ‘populist'?”

Mthethwa visited gang-ridden areas Hanover Park and Lavender Hill on Wednesday, to speak to residents. According to the report, he said bringing in the army to combat gangsterism would turn these areas into war zones.

Zille was not informed of the visit and heard about it through the media.

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Jul 13, 2012

nomimimntanam

people 1st
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Jul 13, 2012

Cl!ck

Thanks for removing my comment Sowetan..

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Jul 13, 2012

Secretary

Zille is a fake
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Jul 13, 2012

Secretary

Zille was not informed of the visit and heard about it through the media
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We are ANC and we know what we are doing.We are incharge of RSA,hence we caanot report to anybody when we scheduled to settle misunderstandings somewhere. We cannot tell her where we go.She wants to deploy her thugs to bomb us.Zille is a thug
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Jul 13, 2012

MyPot

Zille is right, black people from Western Cape townships are very dangerous that requires army and UN telling the truth
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Jul 13, 2012

MGEEZ

The ruling party is playing politics with peoples lives!!! The police have clearly failed to handle the gangsters issue in the cape and Mthethwa's point of live ammunition vs rubber bullets does not change the price of eggs. We can not have any sector of this country being ruled or controlled by thugs; unless Mthethwa is concerned that such a move may expose other issue
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Jul 13, 2012

Naivegirl

@Secretary
"We are ANC and we know what we are doing."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Jul 13, 2012

16-12-1838

@ Secretary
"We are ANC and we know what we are doing."

Really?.... Where? .....When?......What? Argue all you want my friend, it is not for me to judge! Only for reality to prove you're all wrong in the end.

In the mean time innocent S.Africans are losing their lives to drugs and bullets!
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Jul 13, 2012

BopCat

Some people have compared rhinos to black miners' lives, I wonder if they'll say anything about the lives lost in the Cape Flats. Since it's mainly coloured South Africans that are dying there the ANC will do very little to intervene, I wonder why. Maybe they're endorsing Jimmy Manyi's statement. Stop being racist please ANC and help the WC premier sort out this mess.
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Jul 13, 2012

SushiChef

"The South African National Defence Force says Helen Zille’s plan to send troops into gang-infested parts of Cape Town is suicide, as gangsters are better armed, better fed, and can shoot straighter than soldiers. The SANDF is trained to fight a peacekeeping war in Africa, which means smoking ganga at roadblocks while whistling at Congolese women,” explained General Pandemonium Makgoba. “The only thing they’ve ever fired at in anger was a chicken that once ran a checkpoint in Kigali.” see www.haibo.com
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