Lindy Heinecken writes that the army is in a sorry state and she takes a close look at how much money is allocated to salaries; the average age of soldiers and says the structure and design of the defence force needs to be fixed.
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention.
Johan Burger of the Institute for Security Studies says the situation on the Cape Flats has been a flash point for many years and gangs have acted as if they own the place.