Attack on tavern near Johannesburg in which 15 were killed was one of several similar incidents over the weekend
have called for a crackdown on increasingly powerful organised criminals armed with military-grade weapons, blamed for a string of recent deadly attacks., the country’s commercial capital, using an assault rifle and 9mm pistols on Saturday night.
The military-grade arms used in the attack in Soweto strongly suggest organised criminals were involved, as other individuals do not have the connections to obtain such weapons. “This requires a major policy response. Effective intelligence is essential,” he said. “There are only a certain number of people doing this, so it should be possible to proactively remove the weapons from society … But police don’t seem to even know what the problem is.”
Many say gun crime is part of much wider problems of governance and the rule of law in South Africa which suffered during the nine-year rule of Ramaphosa’s predecessor Jacob Zuma.saying the “gruesome” attack in Soweto was a consequence of “moral degeneration in society which requires urgent intervention by the powers that be, society at large, [and] churches.”
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