The delay in the deployment of soldiers in the Cape Flats to help police clamp down on gangsterism, which has led to a spate of murders over the past two weeks, was intended to introduce an element of surprise, defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-NThe minister was addressing a media briefing on Wednesday ahead of her budget vote speech in the National Assembly.
“As far as we are concerned the kind of criminality that has been going on here, the fact that we are ruled by gangs in the Western Cape, points to the fact that there is a serious undermining of the authority of the state.” Mapisa-Nqakula highlighted the issue of the department’s declining budget saying that the defence force was becoming “progressively more unsustainable”.
Specific threats faced by SA included porous borders, and terrorism and fundamentalism by extremist groups which was looming large. More troops were needed to patrol the borders.
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