WILLIAM GUMEDE | Conspiracy or incompetence: why were SA’s security forces so slow to react?
With violence being so obvious a danger after Zuma was jailed, those tasked to protect us have a lot to answer for
15 July 2021 - 19:15
The police, army and intelligence services’ frustratingly slow response to get to looting hotspots and deal with violence and destruction to property raises the spectre of deliberate inaction, incompetence by the state to quickly mobilise security forces, and the government failing to grasp the gravity of the emergency and the need for urgency...
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