Is deploying the army a real solution or a symptom of failure?

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President Ramaphosa is deploying soldiers to fight gangs, but @John_Stupart warns that an overstretched, underfunded army isn’t a local police force. While soldiers might bring a temporary hush to a neighborhood, they lack the power of arrest and the investigative tools needed to actually dismantle syndicates. Are we just using a Band-Aid for a bullet wound?

Do you support the domestic deployment of the SANDF to fight crime?

  • :military_helmet: Yes - we need urgent stability at any cost.
  • :prohibited: No - it’s a temporary Band-Aid that ignores the real problems.
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Not in principle, it reveals all that is bad with our country’s governance but if I were in a gang-ridden township I may have a different view from middle class or academia!

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