00:00South African soldiers moved into gang-reading Camp Town townships on Wednesday
00:05as two people were killing fresh violence nearly 50 days after the president ordered the deployment.
00:11The township is a hot spot for mud and plagued by gang tough wars and retaliatory attacks.
00:17These operations have been publicized. We're not expecting to get much today.
00:22But we got it all year. We got it up to end of March.
00:27But we are going to get these guns because we want these guns out of the people.
00:31If you don't have a gun, then you can't shoot. That's the first thing.
00:34And if the gun, the drugs, because it's one of the problems.
00:38And we are also looking at the gang leaders and the gang members.
00:43Coordinated Operation Prosper, the deployment will last a year and cover five of the nine provinces,
00:49including Gauteng, home to the financial capital Johannesburg, according to a plan presented to Parliament.
00:55There were transport issues allegedly regarding the SNDF.
00:59We've now also heard that the three bases from which they are meant to be working have a fuel shortage,
01:05that the troops already have challenges regarding transport,
01:09and that's one of the reasons that a lot of the soldiers haven't arrived in the province yet.
01:13The deployment was welcome relief, according to some of the local residents,
01:17who say the soldier's presence alone forced gang members to stand back.
01:22Some say the gang's presence was becoming a calamity.
01:26The drug smuggling, the school pupils and the old people get hurt and shot
01:30if the community takes the side of the gangsters.
01:33South Africa has repeatedly turned to the army in times of crisis,
01:37from enforcing strict COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020
01:40to deploying troops during the deadly riot spark by the jailing of ex-President Jacob Zuma in 2021.
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