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Cyril lauds SANDF
February 24, 2026
|The Citizen
Faizel Patel
South Africa’s military, once a feared instrument of apartheid repression, is again being deployed inside the country, this time to confront gang violence and illegal mining.
This was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa during his State Of the Nation (Sona) address last week.
It underscores the scale of organised crime threatening state authority and the delicate balance of using soldiers in domestic operations, a decision haunted by the country’s violent past.
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