Mzamo Jika, Site B
Why do I think deployment of SANDF is a good move?
I stay in Khayelitsha, in Site B to be exact. I leave my house very early in the morning and every day on my way to catching public transport someone is being robbed.
There would be gun shots every morning, you’d hear people screaming and crying and most of the victims are women.
You would hardly see a police van patrolling anywhere as we make our way to work.
The irony of this is that I stay five minutes from the police station. We lock our gates and doors as early as 7pm, especially now in winter.
Not very far from where I stay in RR Section, a group of criminals stormed into a house and started shooting everyone who was in the house, this is besides the Philippi story that was widely covered on the news.
We are living in fear on the streets of the Cape Flats.
So I don’t get it why a person staying comfortably in the leafy suburbs somewhere in Camps Bay would discourage the deployment of SANDF soldiers.
Sometimes we don’t need to apply academic knowledge on such things and try to sound intelligent.