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Quick feedback after Nicholas Gotsell MP and I did an unannounced oversight visit at the South African Police Service Local Criminal Record Centre (LCRC) in Cape Town today. They need HELP!!! This critical unit serves 27 stations in the Western Cape and are lucky if they can deploy 2...

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Today, together with Nicholas Gotsell MP and my colleague Lisa Schickerling MP, I did an unannounced visit to Mitchell’s Plain SAPS to get a clearer picture of how ready they really are for the SANDF deployment in the Western Cape. We wanted straight answers to practical questions. If more arrests are going to follow this deployment, does SAPS actually have the capacity to deal with the extra pressure? That includes processing more forensic exhibits, handling the investigative workload, and making sure there is proper coordination with the NPA so that arrests do not simply become statistics, but lead to prosecutions and convictions. What became clear is that this operation cannot just be about visibility. If the systems behind it are weak, then it risks becoming another short-term intervention that looks busy on the surface but leaves very little behind. We also picked up an alleged fuel shortage affecting the SANDF in the Western Cape. If that is indeed the case, it needs urgent attention. You cannot run a serious stabilisation operation while basic logistics are in doubt. There are also serious questions around the number of troops being deployed. We initially heard that more than 800 SANDF members would be sent to the province. That then dropped to 547, and today we heard the number may in fact be just over 200. That is a major difference, and it raises important questions about where the rest are, whether there are delays, what the actual operational plan is, and how the budget is being used. Operation Prosper must be a focused, time-bound intervention with clear operational goals, proper logistical support and a concrete plan for how SAPS will sustain policing capacity once SANDF support comes to an end. At present, one of the most serious concerns is that neither SAPS nor the SANDF has been able to clearly explain how the success of this deployment will be measured. Without that, communities are being asked to trust an operation without knowing what outcomes are being pursued, what benchmarks will be used, or how the public will know whether it has worked. Just as importantly, SAPS must use this moment to plan beyond the SANDF’s presence. There has to be a proper contingency plan for what happens when soldiers are eventually withdrawn from the Cape Flats. If there is no plan for that now, then we are simply postponing the problem instead of solving it. That said, it was encouraging to see the professional conduct of both SAPS and SANDF members on the ground today. I was also impressed by the City of Cape Town’s Metro Police, Law Enforcement, Traffic Services, and LEAP officers. Their presence and professionalism stood out. The broader point is this: if SAPS is under such pressure that the SANDF is needed to help stabilise parts of the Cape Flats, then the conversation around policing powers at local level can no longer be ignored. The time has come to seriously consider giving the City of Cape Town Metro greater investigative powers and forensic capability. Local government is already carrying a significant burden. It needs the powers to match that reality. Communities deserve more than announcements and short bursts of action. They deserve an operation that is properly resourced, properly coordinated, and measured by whether it leaves people safer in a real and lasting way. IC

Ian Cameron

17,593 views • 4 months ago

🛑 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 - Captain with school boys and girls! The young Captain was having a conversation with the pupils, and here is what he saying, “I was telling you a while ago, in school they were telling us that we couldn’t do it here. They lied to us. We grow wheat here, and it works well, and we will develop it. Some people have started, this year, I was able to see people who did it, as part of the presidential initiative, and I was told that in the past, some were able to do it and they produced it well. Currently, we are sowing wheat in some farmlands as part do the presidential initiative. What you eat must be produced here. So, this is why I say that we will teach you many things, and we will review the curricula they teach you. For those who drink coffee, they told us that your coffee, chocolate, it is only in the countries with abundant rainfalls, that here is only savanna, desert, it does not rain, we cannot farm. Again, they lied to us. It’s not true! Coffee grows well here, cocoa grows well too. There are people here who have the farms here, even in Ouagadougou here, there are people who have cocoa trees in their yards. This means that, chocolate that children envy those from well to do familes can be manufactured here in Burkina and all the children can eat chocolate in Burkina. We found out it is possible. As for milk, why do we have to import it? We can do it. I just want to tell you that there are many things that they never told us the truth about. You guys are lucky, we are now teaching you, and we promise you that we will do all we can so that you can eat your fill. As we say, you will eat well in the morning before you go to school, you will go to school for free, you will eat lunch, you will have fun, and in the afternoon, when you return home, you will have fun in the neighborhood, then in the evening, you will learn and review your homework and sleep. This is the dream we have. As long as the children in Burkina are not in these conditions, our fight will not stop. Ok? (Claps). So, we know these are your aspirations and it is right and legal. Any parent is fighting for this. Even those who do not have children fight in the hope of having children and to take care of them, so that they can live in better conditions, and be better than them. This is the fight of everyone, this is the fight of every generation. We are lucky God gave us everything. Do you know that everywhere in Burkina we can farm? Everywhere! In the Sahel where they tell you it is the desert, it is only sand, we can farm. As for us, we have been lied to so much, it is the brainwashing of the colonizer. He did that so that we may not think 💭. But we finally found out that everything was a lie ( damn lie, emphasis is mine). If God left many lakes in that desert, He knows why. We can farm everything in Burkina, we can do everything, the land is fertile. And there are so many natural things in Burkina that we never planted but they were here, isn’t it ? Have you ever learned how to plant a shea tree in Burkina? You were born and found them already here right? It is there in the wild in nature. You know it is a gift from God. There are many things in the shea fruit. You have the shea butter, that is oil; do you know that there is chocolate in it? There are seven derivatives in the shea fruit. You also have the Parkia biglobosa (also known as the African locust bean) which is a natural fruit. We have many things, it is not only the minerals in the soil. Even with the soil, we were told that it’s ferralitic soil, that it is not fertile, everything is a lie. You see that today there is so much gold in Burkina. But it is just poorly managed. Our mission is to well manage these resources, and to take good care of you, so that you can be in your basic rights, to lead a good life, to go to school, and that we may protect you. And also that you may fulfill your duties, because your duties are very important, aren’t they?…

Sy Marcus Herve Traore

95,027 views • 2 years ago

Americans are becoming wide awake “Dearborn, Michigan is the perfect case study about why Islam is not compatible with American society or civilization at large. Did Dearborn become a beacon of light and hope? Is it full of charity and people looking out for one another in peace and coexistence and, oh my gosh, the amount of doctors and lawyers? No. Dearborn, Michigan is absolutely disgusting. It is filled with crime, it is filled with poverty, and it is filled with American citizens being told that if they do not want to bow down to the Islamization of America, then they need to get the hell out, even being told that by their own politicians. They feel like Islam can rule over everything there, right? They loudly play their call to prayer and if you have a problem with it, despite the fact that it legally breaks city ordinance with how loud it is, then you're told to leave and that you need to be quiet and that you just need to submit to their way of living. If you think that this is a coincidence, if you think that they have any intention of stopping there, then you are deluding yourself. These people are extremely violent. They don't want open discourse. They don't want open dialogue about religion. They do not see you as an equal, and girls who do not wear hijabs there or who do not dress in their definition of modesty are oftentimes harassed for it. They even went so far as to try to stop people from being able to walk their dogs because they see dogs as unclean animals. This is absolutely disgusting and I hope the American people start to wake up and realize what's actually going on over there.”

Wall Street Apes

75,386 views • 8 months ago

Yes, indeed, this is lawlessness by any standard. Even by banana republic standards, this is still lawlessness. Your country has a constitution, it has a government, it has a police service, and it has a ruling party. I am sure you can see that some of the people there are actually wearing ruling party T-shirts. It is lawless regardless of whoever does it. It is an embarrassment to South Africa as a country, what you are doing and what you are encouraging people to do. Your country has an immigration service. If people are in your country illegally, they should be arrested and deported through lawful processes. You do not go around destroying property, tearing down markets, and attacking people. It is illegal regardless of whoever does it. It is not illegal because I have said so. It is illegal because the laws of your country make it so. This is vigilantism, pure and simple, and it is tainting the reputation of South Africa, not only across Africa but across the world. If you have got satellite television in your home, you can see that these actions are being reported everywhere. It is not good for your country. This kind of barbarism undermines the rule of law, fuels division, and damages South Africa’s standing as a constitutional democracy. It is the actions of a few that are tainting the reputation of many. The average South African is not mindless like this. They respect the law, and they respect the fact that among them, in their communities, there are people from other countries. If those people are in the country illegally, you report them and the law takes its course through proper processes of arrest and deportation. You do not descend into mob justice, lawlessness, and destruction. That is not who South Africans are, and it must not be normalised.

Hopewell Chin’ono

80,812 views • 3 months ago

#TAEYONG WEVERSE LIVE 🌹: "And there is one thing I’ve realized, that now when I’m alone, I don’t want to talk about the members anymore. Because I felt this even when I was in the military. Of course, I did do it a lot, but I think I came to think that talking about someone else when they aren’t around isn’t polite, no matter how much they are team members". 🌹: "We’re close and like brothers, but still, if you hear what you want to hear directly from the people involved, it’s much more comfortable for me, and I think it would be more comfortable for you all and the person involved too. (I’m trying not to talk about even that member’s TMI anymore. Actually, I did talk about it during the last interview. There was talk about the members, but because the other members might feel uncomfortable. I said that I wouldn’t talk about it. 🌹: "I asked for your understanding. So I hope you all understand. They did that for me . I hope you all understand, too. I think I regretted those things. Talking about the members' TMI or things like that in the past. They might have wanted to talk about it too, you know". 🌹: "And rather than just finding it fun for me to talk about, the people involved need to have something to say when they come. If I tell them everything, what are they going to talk about when they turn on the live stream again? If I tell them everything, they probably won't turn on the live stream at all. They won't even talk". *Pat pat* 🌹: "You all understand, right? Thank you" * Taeyong, I respect your decision. I hope those people who always do that can understand and respect your decision as well.

🌹Nyo

134,738 views • 2 months ago