Thrown to the wolves: how intelligence and police failed SA during July riots

SANDF emerges unscathed from expert panel’s report. The same can certainly not be said of other security branches

07 February 2022 - 19:44

SA’s key crime intelligence structure had been gutted, rendering it ineffective in adequately predicting — and then curtailing, let alone stopping — the deadly July 2021 riots that left more than 300 dead and R50bn wiped from the country’s economy...

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