DA wants revamp of understaffed, under-resourced Anti-Gang Unit

By Alicia Mmashakana

There have been nearly 60 shootings in the Cape Flats in recent days, leaving at least 30 people dead, according to Democratic Alliance police spokesperson Ian Cameron.

“We must not tolerate or normalise communities being warzones, where children die in hails of bullets while playing outside and going to school,” he said in a statement on Thursday.

Last year, the national government, police and the Western Cape government signed a Memorandum of Understanding towards better, more effective cooperation in the fight against crime, particularly in Cape Town.

At the time, Premier Alan Winde said that he hoped that MoU would “translate into the SAPS in the Western Cape being adequately resourced to more effectively do its job in making communities safer”.

However, the city is still being plagued by gangsterism.

Cameron, who chairs the police portfolio committee, said the DA would push for the committee to focus