With only weeks remaining of the SANDF’s deployment to the Cape Flats, it’s hard to assess the impact of the troops’ presence. But on Wednesday, one point raised by cops, a colonel and community members was consistent: the military deployment should be extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The soldiers are here, and we’re happy,” Nyanga Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson Martin Makasi told a packed room at the Lentegeur police station in Mitchells Plain on Wednesday 28 August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Makasi’s sentiment was echoed by other community safety representatives at a briefing intended to help MPs assess the impact of the deployment of the SANDF to gang hot spots on the Cape Flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We appreciate the presence of the army,” veteran Elsies River activist Imran Mukkadam said. “In our community, it has sent a new message of hope.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the SANDF’s side, too, the conviction was expressed that the army deployment, code-named Operation Prosper, is having a positive impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colonel Keith Aarons sketched the context of the troops’ arrival on the Cape Flats on the weekend of 19 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Using deception and surprise, we deployed in Manenberg,” he said. “It is my humble opinion that that weekend, we saved some lives in Manenberg.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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