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Police are seen alongside members of the army in Cape Town as part of efforts to fight crime in this image captured on 01 April 2026.
Cape Town-based non-governmental organisation, Justice Fund, believes that money used to fund the army’s deployment to crime-ridden areas in the country should have been used to bolster police work.
It’s the second day that soldiers have been in the streets of the Cape Flats alongside the police as part of Operation Prosper.
Justice Fund CEO, Lorenzo Davids, says the army isn’t the best solution to fight violent crime and gangsterism, especially on the Cape Flats.
“The R820 million that we are spending on this deployment should’ve gone to more detective work, more forensic work, more prosecutors that are able to take on these cases. That’s not happening. There’s a vacuum in the police service of not having detectives, not having prosecutors, not having forensic work – none of that is available within this process.”
