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8 Aug 2012
Troops may soon be sent in to try to sort out the gang warfare in the South African city of Cape Town.
The country’s largest trade union group (COSATU) and the premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, have recently both sent letters to South African president Jacob Zuma, calling for intervention to sort out the problem.
The president’s office has said he will take advice from the police on the ground. Soldiers were sent into certain targeted hotspots last December apparently improving safety levels dramatically.
The latest calls come at a time when the violence between gangs appears to be increasing.
More than two dozen people have been killed in the past few months after being caught up in the fighting between the rival gangs.
There was talk of a “truce” between certain gangs but according to those Sky News spoke to there is fighting virtually every night.
The Sky News team managed to gain access to one of the gangs and was given an extraordinary insight into the underbelly of one of South Africa’s most beautiful cities.
They told us they were members of “the Americans” – a gang they said had about 100 members.
“Once you are a member, you are in it for life,” Nash told Sky News.
“There’s no way out.”
All the men were out of work. Many had already been in prison, some several times, and they confessed to robbing, mugging and killing to buy food or to feed their drug habit.
“This is tik,” Ringo explained to Sky News.
“It’s crystal meth and we have to have our tik every day. If we don’t get it, we get very aggressive.
“But with tic, we can do anything. I would kill Eyes (the gang’s leader) and not even worry about it.”
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