Simon Nare
Police portfolio committee chairperson Ian Cameron said key questions remain unanswered over the framework, command structures and joint training governing the deployment of soldiers to support police, and that poor coordination risks undermining the operation.
Speaking at Parliament’s Peace and Security Cluster media briefing on Thursday, Cameron said the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) could provide a “necessary force multiplier and visible presence” in the short to medium term, but it was not a long-term solution to violent crime.
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“There is a real risk that it becomes a temporary measure, a plaster on a wound that requires surgery,” he said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his February State of the Nation Address that the SANDF would support police in the Western Cape and Gauteng against gang violence and illegal mining. That has since been
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