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Speaker 1: Right now, Cape Town. We did talk about this some

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Speaker 1: days back. I think we probably jumped the gun because

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Speaker 1: the soldiers being deployed on the Cape Flats was the

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Speaker 1: focus of the conversation. But I think that deployment really

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Speaker 1: hadn't begun. It's definitely begun now. A couple of issues

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Speaker 1: already being raised and our edw and reporter Carlo Peterson

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Speaker 1: has been watching the deployment very closely. Carlo, very good

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Speaker 1: afternoon to residents responses. First of all, which communities have

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Speaker 1: you been in and what are the people who live

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Speaker 1: there saying? Good afternoon, John.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So today the deployment is targeting the Tafel Sack

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Speaker 2: area of Mitchell's Plain, which is one of the areas

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Speaker 2: worst eat by gang violence in the Mitchell's Plain community.

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Speaker 2: And this morning, when we were in the area along

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Speaker 2: with the troops, one of the homes they were raided,

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Speaker 2: and the response from those residents in that house was

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Speaker 2: was quite alarming. They were furious that the police had

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Speaker 2: had come and raided the house, saying that they had

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Speaker 2: got got in the wrong address and that the real

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Speaker 2: uh dragged in was further down the road. And it

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Speaker 2: was quite a commotion there in in the road. But

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Speaker 2: Ian Cameron, a member of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police,

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Speaker 2: he was also in this morning and he says that

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Speaker 2: the the the information uh the police are keating comes

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Speaker 2: from criminal intelligence and the raids that they aren't doing

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Speaker 2: are all legal, and you know, there's there's nothing unto

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Speaker 2: all about him. He says he personally saw the warrants

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Speaker 2: this morning and as so far as both the police

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Speaker 2: and the essay in the i F they have both

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Speaker 2: gone acted themselves in an exeemly professional way. And we've

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Speaker 2: also seen our walk past a young boy as the

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Speaker 2: troops were going down down the road and I asked

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Speaker 2: him how to feel, how do you feel about the

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Speaker 2: troops being here? And he just looked at me and

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Speaker 2: he said he feels safe, you know, And that was

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Speaker 2: just one one coming coming from from from that little boy.

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Speaker 2: Another resident in the same road she said that, you know,

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Speaker 2: the troops being deployed, they will bring them some relief.

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Speaker 2: She's hoping that throughout the they say the gang violence

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Speaker 2: will decrease. Another resident said he hopes that they will

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Speaker 2: stick within the law, you know, while they're doing the operations,

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Speaker 2: because we don't want the case where the community itself

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Speaker 2: and feels that the essay in the IF is unwelcome

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Speaker 2: in the areas.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, color Peters in a real sense

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Speaker 1: of what's been going on in the Tofel Sick area

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Speaker 1: of Mitchell's Plain as the SA and DF troops finally

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Speaker 1: start taking to the streets of the Cape Flats