I could list countless occasions when South Africans desperately needed this level of police and military intervention.
When women’s bodies were discovered in Kempton Park, when zama zamas terrorised communities, when residents of Westbury and Eldorado Park pleaded for protection from gang violence, when communities in the Cape Flats were caught in deadly gang wars, when construction mafias threatened workers and businesses, when extortion syndicates targeted spaza shops and schools, when women and children were raped and murdered and when communities lived in fear of armed criminals, where was this level of urgency?
Yet when violent clashes erupt between locals and foreign nationals, soldiers are swiftly deployed.
The question is why ordinary South Africans cannot expect the same urgency, resources and protection when their own communities are under siege.
Why does it take a foreign nationals involvement for the government to demonstrate that it has the capacity to act?@mmkubayi@Khu_Ntshavheni@ParliamentofRSA
The police couldn’t protect South African women and children in the East but they’re out in numbers protecting military aged men from Bangladesh and Pakistan?? Okay 👍🏾
Let’s not forget.
Of the 11 bodies of women found in Ekurhuleni over recent months, arrests have been made in only three cases.
That leaves 8 cases with no arrests.
Every victim deserves justice. Every family deserves answers.
These cases cannot be forgotten. The investigations must remain a priority until those responsible are brought to book.
Don’t forget our sisters in Kempton Park! The news cycle may have ran its course but please don’t forget them, don’t stop talking about them. Remember them, please 💜💜💜💜