NO PLAN YET

ACTING Police Minister Professor Firoz Cachalia has admitted that there is no concrete plan to stop the wave of gang violence devastating the Cape Flats.

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Addressing concerned Mitchells Plain residents, he said that while a strategy had been presented to him by provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile, it has not been resourced or implemented.

Cachalia said during a community engagement yesterday: “The provincial commissioner and the head of crime intelligence presented me with a plan.

“They must still implement that plan. They must still resource that plan, that plan that is needed. So we need a stabilisation plan.

“We need to go on the offensive against the drug lords, stabilise our communities, make sure that we are in charge, not the criminals. But the truth is, I don’t believe that plan is yet in place.”