{"id":974,"date":"2026-02-14T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:16:45","slug":"sandf-brings-rifles-a-state-of-disaster-bring-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/sandf-brings-rifles-a-state-of-disaster-bring-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"SANDF brings rifles, a state of disaster bring budgets: Activist group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cape Crime Crisis Coalition’s Reverend Dr Llewellyn MacMaster argues that the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy the army to deal with gangs points to fundamental failures in the governments strategies to keep its citizens safe. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

The Cape Crime Crisis Coalition (C4) rejects the rationale for the deployment of the SANDF to combat gangs and gang-related crime and violence on the Cape Flats and in Gauteng. The deployment of the army is not a solution; it is a surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Ramaphosa\u2019s SONA 2026 announcement to bring in the SANDF is an unequivocal admission that the state has lost the strategic initiative to deliver public safety. When a government calls in the army to perform civilian policing, it confesses that its police leadership is broken, its political oversight has failed, and its reserves of competent governance are exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


We have been here before and the evidence shows that is does not work. In 2019, Operation Prosper was launched with great fanfare in Mitchell\u2019s Plain, Nyanga, and across the Cape Flats. Cameras rolled. Politicians posed. Soldiers patrolled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every month 100 people killed in gang violence across the Cape Flats. One man has an idea to keep kids safe<\/a><\/blockquote>