Cape Town murder rate unchanged despite army deployment

Waving and giggling, crowds of children scamper behind a Casspir military armoured truck trailed by police vehicles as they snake through the streets on a raid in the gang-ridden Cape Flats area.

Situated on the southeastern outskirts of Cape Town, the Cape Flats area comprises multiple townships where blacks and people of mixed race were condemned to live by the oppressive apartheid regime. “Everybody was elated when they heard the news that the army was going to come in because the situation was so dire that anything to improve the situation would have helped,” said Kader Jacobs, who heads a community policing forum in Manenberg township.

A 2019 report on urban safety released by the South African Cities Network showed Cape Town recorded the highest murder rates in the country at 69 people killed per 100,000 — double the national average rate recorded last year. Bowing to pressure from local government, community and social organisations after 43 murders were recorded in just one weekend in July, President Cyril Ramaphosa cleared a temporary three-month military deployment.

“Half of the detectives in the province have a caseload of 200 dockets or more, when the ideal number is between 50 and 60,” Western Cape premier Alan Winde said.A social activist of the Manenberg Safety Forum charity, Roegchanda Pascoe, is also not impressed.

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