Mapisa-Nqakula yesterday testified at the SA Human Rights Commission hearings into July's riots and looting in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, mentioning “egos” and an alleged lack of co-operation from Mkhwanazi and the police.When she arrived in KwaZulu-Natal during the unrest, she was confused when Mkhwanazi withheld information at a meeting and “spoke about a challenge” that had nothing to do with the riots.
However, on July 11 Ramaphosa called her with a request to deploy the SA National Defence Force to KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng where the riots had resulted in deaths, devastation and chaos. “The defence force is trained for crowd control. It is not trained to prevent people from committing crimes. The manner in which they have been trained is such that it is easy to find a situation where, instead of stopping what they are supposed to do, transgressions are committed, particularly because for some reason among our people in our communities, people get very excited when they see soldiers and they provoke them, just to see how they react.
“And once the police decide, they make a request through the minister of defence and, of course, the minister writes a letter, which is cosigned by the ministers of police and defence, for the attention of the president. So at that point, even the commander in chief himself [the president] ... cannot just take a decision on the basis of the letter,” she said.
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