Maratachelete

I heard before that he (President Zoomer),was actually going to deploy the troops,now I hear he isn't,so he's fine with the fact that innocent people,including children are dying because of the scourge of gangsterism in the province.
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candilious

Haai Zuma now youshow the country these thugs are paying you neh! why else wount you deploy the troops this gang war has been going on for years and peolpe are dying.

Or is it your way of trying to make the coloured race exstict cause thats how it looks............
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Papage

Are the Coloured Community that hard to control? Stop the flow of drugs and alcohol to those Townships then you will see, just for 2 months, SAB must stop selling alcohol to them and police focus on drugs, I am telling you you will see a change of heart.
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Mellow

I really dont think that SAPS alone can handle this horrific situation again zuma shawara useless pres is failing we all know how corrupt incompetent police are and sending them in a war zone wont help a bit am sure most of them are part of this gangs

Candilious Hello my liefie and howz you dear? You can say that again zuma
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Voetzek

The Madam said she wanted to make WC ungovernable whats now, those man she employed will be gang soldiers
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Ben-Israel

Sometime we miss the point. Let us not fight the problem but the cause of the problem. The problem can just be controlled. I can tell you now Mr. Zuma, and your minister that this operation you are taking will never solve the problem of violence in the Western Cape and nationally. The province is flooded with social and socio-economic problems, drugs, poverty, racism etc. If the government comes with a national strategy to have 70-80% of its budget focused to addressing social and social-economic issues and the rest of the budget in controlling problems then I tell you our situations will not change. For example, if AIDS kills people n the government spends millions buying medication and people still die, then why still spend soo much trying to cure AIDS instead of trying to prevent the source of AIDS then people will never stop dying. Prevention is better than cure.
People are morally corrupt. Our thinking is defiled by our social backgrounds and our actions are fuelled by the anger these social backgrounds have imposed on us. As long as the government does not come with poverty eluviation programmes, as long as there are drugs in our neighbourhood, and most importantly as long as our leaders and the correctional service is corrupt and incompetent, as long as we as people don’t take steps to correct our ways of life and our morals then the violence will never stop. There is no province I haven’t been to in South Africa, and I can tell you now the Western Cape is one of the most racial provinces in this country. Racism is condoned in this province. Coloured families condone black hatred, blacks despise coloured people in return and even worse there is too much division amongst blacks in the Western Cape. Cultural differences bleed the province. The Western Cape is by far the one place where drugs are easily accessible. This explains why the province has the highest growing percentage of underage drug usage. In this province drinking is a fashionable thing, you see young beautiful girls and boys looking 10 years older because of drugs and alcohol abuse.
This is not a coloured or black thing, but its an issue that is affecting Western Cape townships not only lavender parks and hanover park mentioned in this article. There is violence in khayelitsha, gugulethu, delft, makhasa and everywhere.
I have spent most of my life moving from province to province, but what I see in the Western Cape is totally shocking. I have seen things in all provinces but the Western Cape is extreme. So our government has let things go too far and now it finds it difficult to control what is happening on the ground. So for me the strategy is to start where they should have and correct things from the ground and go up.

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OLDLADY4

UHHHHH, Voetzek, I don't believe it was The Madam who said she wants to make WC ungovernable.
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Dalashishi

From what i understand is that onlyduring a state of emergency can Government send trrops against its own cirtizens if troops are deployed then the province will be a police state, curfews, random searches, will be inplaced. since gangesterism is prevalant in "black/coloured communities" western cape will be like during the apartheid times. Common sense must prevail. Soldiers use live bullets not rubber or water cannons.
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GORRILAH

U guys dont know the Flats and u are busy commenting on things u dont know. Zille is on point when she said they must deploy soldiers period cause police wont do anything.
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Dalashishi

the DA has and always is the first to negatively criticise that SAPS what damage has that done to the morale of the wersten cape Police force? i know i wouldnt put in my 100% effort if im alway put down.
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