00:02A show of force in Cape Town, around 500 military and police personnel parade ahead of a year-long deployment
00:10targeting gangs, illegal mining and organised crime across the Western Cape.
00:17Because for too long our families have been suffering. We're going to do this and we're going to do it
00:23properly. We're going to bring peace. We're going to bring unity.
00:27And we're going to die. My mission here, my agenda here. Because here for the drugs and the gangs, they
00:34have corrupted, they have destroyed the moral fabric of our families.
00:40Every child will come back to the class, Cameron.
00:44From April, South Africa will be deploying troops for a year across five provinces to tackle illegal mining and deadly
00:53gang violence.
00:56We place emphasis on coordinated, intelligence-driven operations, response to dismantle illicit mining networks, combat gang violence and disrupt a
01:09broader organised crime across the country.
01:14Excluding war zones, South Africa ranks among the world's deadliest countries, with around 60 homicides reported every single day.
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