25 murders in Cape Town over weekend, despite army presence

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Civil society organisations say the deployment of the army to the Cape Flats means nothing as it's doing little to stem gang violence.

The DA in the Western Cape has expressed gratitude for the national, provincial and municipal partnership in the fight against crime.The President says the public protector’s findings against him are flawed.

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The SADF force is wasting 21 million of our revenue while their presence is not effective and conducive to that Region they shouldn't be receiving their special allowance for thus deployment!

How many over the same period immediately prior to the army coming in?

Ja the SA Army is a J. O. K. E.

Makes one wonder about the ability and efficiency of the ANC govt re planning, intelligence, strategy, deployment and implementation of the military!

SANDF active duty times: 09:00-10:00, 11:00-12:00,14:00-15:00. Rest of time is Tea break, lunch break, sleep break, home time.

stolencarRSA What do you expect? These people are high on drugs, you cannot kill people sober. I don't know that personally before you guys start thinking am a killer. I just watch a lot of RossKemp doccies.

The army is not the solution....giving coloured people their jobs back lost because they not ethnic blacks in this 'democratic SA' and restoring their dignity will

Clearly the army’s deployment is not helpful 🤷‍♂️

Eish this doesnt sound any good......

Where is afriforum ? We need you to tell the whole world some true story. Not that nonsense you have been spreading about white Genocide

The army is patrolling in the safe sections of cape town ( The suburbs) and not the rural areas and townships.

With the support of the army police must go into gangsters house seize their weapons and drags and lock them up.

In Khayelitsha I've never seen a single Soldier since this started 🤚🏿

These soldiers should go straight to where the gangsters hide and take the guns, have snitches helping them to know exactly where to go...BUT these ones are just searching passengers in Taxis during the day, it was disappointing seeing🤚🏿...

Business as usual

They should just let things be until everyone dies then CT will be empty. Its hopeless 🤕🤷🏼‍♂️

What did people expect? The army knows the boot, the Burrell and the bullet. The military knows only orders and they execute.. In this case you need intelligence, investigations, asking witnesses, writing statements... That can't be done with armored cars, tanks and granades

So those who are responsible for the killings seemed to be step ahead of the SAPS and the army...

I don't think the criminals in Cape town need to be arrested... if they can kill 25 in just one weekend, they seriously need to be wiped off

When you have a criminal justice system which protects and give criminals more rights than the law enforcement, this is what you get.

Mabena

That is bad

Well they have halved?

Thug Life.

The gangs follow on twitter for regular updates so they know when where police n army will b plus the police give them a heads up n inside info so army is just there wasting ur tax abiding by civilian rules

They don't dwell in the houses of thugs therefore killings will possible continue

High crime is proportional to high inequality. It’s more than 20 years now that we have the opposition ruling the Western Cape province they ought to be demonstrating how they will rule the country Incase we vote for them.

The SANDF does not have a good (army) record within + outside of South Africa except for doing displays at inaugurations...it's most effective days was when it was SADF...

CPT & KZN are the second biggest problems we are facing in this country after HIV.

What are they exactly doing in Cape Town? Pose with rifles on the streets

Can you focus on this section of the CJ and stop this propaganda that you're pushing

Military won’t be able to deal with policing duties, since they’re not trained the same way. If we wanna see changes then military should be given full operation, unfortunately we all know the ending won’t be nice. But can rest assured you that violence will be gone.

When criminals kill criminals, criminals become less with 50% Some fall in love with criminals and die as a result. Then law abiding citizens must stop them, when all should actually go to church.

Friday night was driving from Randz to Tableview saw lot of police overall, unless if they’re not strategic well positioned. Some they raided a car in Killarney fuel station.

Mabena please disappoint me again,I knew it mabena.😔

The Army must just moer this gangs

cci_network LITTLE OR NO EDUCATION IN SOME COMMUNITIES PEOPLE BECOME SLAVES OF THE EVIL ONE

Does it include those who died due to sicknesses and car accidents?

Bheki Cele knows what to do,he must deploy TRT unit/amabharet permanently just for cape town province

The army is not deployed in the whole of CapeTown....They are in the Cape flats....where are the 25 murders and if in the Cape flats....when were they reported?....

so my question is this The deployment of the army in the Cape Flats crime hotspots will cost the state about R23.4m. what is this money for

Stats murders are down, lets ALLLL get behind our cops and army and support them. Let the communities struggling speak out.

Who’s gonna pay these idiots?

Kunzima 💔😢

Clearly the army being there is justified now..

In the forensic departments don't we have undercover detectives who would work on the ground and blend in into society to bring crucial information and evidence to root out these criminals from society? Are we really that incompetent?

I'm pretty sure some murders aren't even being counted.. It has to be more!!

Where's the evidence to back this assumption up?

Hebann, kanjani?

They’re protected by our constitution what do you expect the army will do...

Why your news reader was keep on saying disicion was made against miss Mkhebane (PP).and using European referee n teams....does he undermines our football? We just play an a African Cup of Nations..last Friday..

We applaud the progress 👏🏽

Hectic.

The only solution is to search every one for guns almost every one has a gun here in Cape town, some of these thugs buy ammunition from soldiers.

What is DA doing about this

That's an improvement tho

LwandoNtentesa Adolf Hitler was going to be the solution.

Let us hope the killing will stop now that the army are on the streets of Cape Town

Is the army present everywhere in cape town ?

If they really want to stop this lawlessness in this country they should get Zimbabwean Army for only a month.just a month I repeat a month

Its a war zone.

Just give Mphakati a green light they will deal with them within 2days

I think they are the one killing people now

People dropping like flies!Best city in Africa!

I knew it mabhena 😣😣😣

Because criminals know army's there for support only,

FatalMoves A person who came up idea of deploying the army for such an entrenched criminal culture needs their head examined. SAPoliceService needs to invest in intelligence and spying in order to get to gang heads. This problem needs proactive means not reactive means like the army.

The problem is INSIDE !!!!!

'Stomach in, chest out!'

What they do is patrolling full meal plates in our favorite restaurant

They deployed AboMabena...Yeses!

There would more deaths if the army was at the forefront, Saps is still failing!

Was it supposed to drop to 0 overnight na?

This whole mission is going to fail in fact it's already failing.

It is okay to balance your reports with positive outcomes. Tell us about arrests made so far. It is not news that the army is a temporal solution. You are reporting to people with normal human intelligence. Don’t you get sick to your stomachs with this negativity? CapeTown

They should reshuffle all WC police and bring in a totally new crew!

hybo guys how long the army has been. there?

Declare those areas as state emergency and allow military to rule. This thing of military being puppies of the police is not going to help. Military must be mandated with military road blocks, house searches, surveillance, collection and BBB... otherwise, this are all jokes.

I just think this news channel is bunch of losses. SANDF is doing a great work. Half of the killings compared last few weeks

Mabena Do we hv terrorists in cape?

Thought the figures dropped ?

Let government give the army rights to cooperate the situation not to assist police

Until they give soldiers right to arrest and search then ther will be progress

The only way the army can be effective is to turn the Cape flats townships upside down and disarm everyone ,Doesn't matter whether a criminal or civil disarm everyone. So I video of bystanders taking a video whilst gangsters where killing each other ,It's a sick society

Mabena mabena

The army is there to protect women and children

We can't expect the army to engage like they are in battlefield of war people will die

MbuyiseniNdlozi Then after the Zimbabwean army had eradicated gangsterism. They then refuse to go back home.

Marshall law?

Those gang members are people... with families , that has been forgotten by their government. People in need of work,and a decent paycheck. They know how it feels to work for the White man's ritches. They don't want to compromise anymore. They want fairness and Justice. BLM

If this is the case, cape town needs to be closed down

think its time NATO troops intervene in delft.

Thanks to our 'best constitution in the world'

ENCA is just full of SHIT!! They report as if the murders took place in specific locations where the army was deployed!

Get rid of the fucken RULES OF ENGAGEMENT and you'll see heads flying, the law protects criminals. We can't shoot unless you're being shot at, how can you shoot back when you're dead?

Because soldiers are in Manenberg and Philip only now the killers have relocated to places like Delft and Nyanga where there is no soldiers

This would help

The SANDF was placed in specific townships in the Cape Flats and not in Cape Town! Stop misleading people!! In Langa and Guguletu there is no presence of the soldiers and the murders might have occurred mostly in those areas... You people are pathetic punch of liars.

They must go back then

They must swap the Cape Town police to Limpopo or Mpumalanga and they will see change

officials dying in the call of duty too amongst those numbers. total waste of resources this initiation. if anything, it is likely to make gangsterism more aggressive. this is not high school where you scare troublesome kids with a prison visit.

we really aint safe 💔

How can you jail someone who pays your bills 🙄

Problem is there are too many corrupt police officers

Why not say the number of murder declined since they were deployed. eNCA le rata negativity.

Since when?

It even sounds like some soldiers won’t make it back home... they went to donate rifles there.

Please try pastors now, like psbushiri, PastorMbhoro and all those... be cause army is literally lazy... bayazijolela nje

As far as I know, the Army is there to assist the police and not on their own mission. But things cannot change overnight, hopefully we will see improvement soon

SAPS & SANDF are utterly useless.

The army is there to assist the police and not to do their job. These soldiers were thrown with the law book before moving into the areas. There is a lot of things by law they are not allowed to do. I do feel for them. At the moment it is just a show of force.

This place is unsafe

Skoax All victims are either Black or Coloured. Not a single White casualty. Proof once again that DA serves only Whites.

Army can not stop any crime or gangster ism in South Africa, what will stop crime is to change the system of which things are done here IN SA. The laws of the land encourages criminality and if nothing is done about it, crime will be forever in SA

The army can't solve socio-economic problems. The problem in SA is bigger than what meets the eye

Sandf must start to gather info themselves SAPS will never take them where there’s is problem.U can’t take Soldiers to ur master 🤐

I'm not surprised

They should come get Namibian defence force they out here beating and killing people in the name of reducing crime.

Sending soldiers is not a solution........

It’s a war out there and wars don’t end over. It’s a calculated marathon. I strongly believe this war will end in its time.

Cape town worse then Seria and Afghanistan

Yhoo kanti when did this military arrive for things to just change nje

MbuyiseniNdlozi Is this a civil war going?

MbuyiseniNdlozi Media and their negativity, it was expected. We have a long way to go

Cape Town is not safe 🤔

But you are not giving the full acount. The number dropped to 25 this past weekend as compared to week before which 55

MbuyiseniNdlozi Since Newzroom405 was born eNCA is desperately seeking attention now with irrelevant stories.

MbuyiseniNdlozi I wonder what the number was in previous weeks?

This article is misleading... The army is not all over cape town... This murders took place where the army is not deployed...

South Africa has no intelligence, FINISH N KLAAR!!!

The Army doesn’t really seem to be intimidating anyone into backing down. Cape Town gangsters are savages, the only way to fully contain that situation is to ‘break’ a lot of conventional policing rules. Sadly, that’s gonna draw a lot of public criticism too!

Like really

Using 'scare tactics' to won't reduce killings.. The army must be given total control of Hotspots.

Our army just needs some high tec stuff to locate these gangsters before they waste more time patrolling the streets this will avoid gangsters from knowing their where abouts and by the time they know it the army is knocking at your door.

Just let the army take over the operation wance

Come take Zimbabwean Army. The crisis will disappear today.

Army is not there for the whole day

MujaheedDaniel3

Haaikona 😮😮

MbuyiseniNdlozi What's the point🤨🤨

People must remember army can't be everywhere in the cape

This isn't a army operation they suppose to be support but poverty is the issue here but CyrilRamaphosa will tell them to start businesses

We shouldn't be proud of the army going to Cape Town after these murders. We need to get to the root of this problem.

So, its not working like many against army deployment predicted. The DA just wanted to exploit your media to fuel their own agenda blaming national government.

Mabenas 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️

MbuyiseniNdlozi They are just patrolling. They must identify those thugs and shoot them to death. Identify and Kill....

Nothing to change, it's too late

The reason is simple, the murder rate will continue to increase because because those soldiers 'are patrolling'. To curb murders you need to sniff out gangsters wherever they're hiding and lock them up. Patrolling as in walking up and down the streets won't yield any good results

They have to raid house to house and search everyone on the street make frequent road blocks, let hope this will be resolved soon before the death toll rise.

Bruh!

No ways 😮

For now they are statues. They are waiting for that call

Latla la nnyela Army ya lona for attention enca, what a disrespectful headline.

American army has been in Afghanistan for 20 years and have never managed to bring everlasting peace

What about the arrests that have been made while the army has been there When will they be mentioned

Yoooh

I really see no difference

The Army should have been robust!!

and you think if SA was to face a war, would they cope?

Lord have mercy

Nothing will ever rehabilitate the things going on in those communities

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