Police plan to tackle gang violence in Cape Town not enough to curb shootings - Gangsterism Must Fall

Anti-gang movement, Gangsterism Must Fall, says the SAPS' new plan to tackle gang violence in Cape Town is nothing new and won't be enough to curb the ongoing shootings.

A statistic presented in Parliament shows that close to 500 gang-related deaths have been recorded in the province since April.

Acting minister for police, Firoz Cachalia, presented the police's new anti-gang plan to the select committee on security and justice in Parliament this week.

Cachalia said the plan would see policing bolstered with increased crime intelligence and community policing in gang hotspots.

Gangsterism Must Fall convenor, Roscoe Jacobs, said the new plan failed to tackle the root causes of gangsterism.

"The plan pays lip service to integration and partnership but in truth it remains an enforcement-heavy, reactive approach that does little to address to socio-economic conditions that breed gangsterism and violence."