ARMY DEPLOYED

Recently, residents of gang-hit Cape Town neighbourhoods cheered and applauded from the pavement and leant out of the windows of their homes to record videos on their phones as armoured military vehicles drove by in a long convoy. The week before, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced that the South African National Defence Force would be deployed to 10 of the city’s murder hotspots for a period of three months. He added that the deployment was an “extraordinary” measure to ensure public safety amid spiralling