Send police to Cape Flats, or don’t brown lives matter?
YET another call by Helen Zille for the army to be deployed to the Cape Flats. It is all getting a bit tedious. The ANC will never allow the army to be deployed here on any meaningful level. Instability on the Cape Flats is what it requires, the reason virtually all our police stations are understaffed and under-resourced.
The reason: SAPS is headed by a minister who tried to dance with Beyoncé on the taxpayers’ dime. But, Madam Zille, you have an army of your own, its called the Metro Police. I have been begging for it to be deployed to the Cape Flats for months – you chose to keep calling for the army.
Either to keep embarrassing the ANC (this party still has Jacob Zuma as president, it has no shame) or because you refuse to share the resources of the province equitably.
Madam Premier, I cannot help but notice the action from all spheres of government when 11 people die unnatural deaths in a predominantly black township. I cannot help but notice that seven people were killed by community members in retaliation.
If this were to happen where the indigenous folk live, it wouldn’t make the news. But the deaths of gang members at the hands of community members would be termed vigilantism and a good few arrests would have been made.
The common ground shared by the DA and the ANC is the grey area where we live. You know it is the Cape Flats, where the undesirables live.
In your chase for the black vote, you have again proven that brown lives don’t matter, that we are mere voting fodder. Know that the brown vote is not a given. BRIGADIER-GENERAL FADIEL ADAMS MEDIA LIAISON OFFICER South African Cape Corps