Yes, the violence - particularly in the Gauteng area where it's related to undocumented mining gangs keeping enslaved people and killing each other - is genuinely shocking.
However, putting thugs in uniform with guns on street corners to replace thugs out of uniform with guns on street corners is only a solution if the uniform is the bit that matters.
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