Beef up and capacitate the police
Different images of lone police officers helplessly waving away groups of looters were a familiar sight during the violent spree that gripped Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal last month.
These images aptly told a story of what we now know for sure – our security forces were unprepared and had no capacity to deal with the violence and destruction that confronted us...
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