ATM: Govt losing battle against crime amid spate of mass shootings
The African Transformation Movement believes the government is losing the battle against crime.
It follows a spate of deadly shootings around the country in the past few weeks.
This past weekend, six people were shot at a home in Inchanga, west of Durban.
Four of them died.
Another five were shot and killed in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, and five more in Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
Last weekend, more than a dozen people were killed in separate shooting incidents at taverns in Pietermaritzburg and Soweto.
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ATM spokesperson Sibusiso Mncwabe says they've written to the Speaker of Parliament about the state of security in the country.
He's called on President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele to address the issue.
"The national security cluster seeking as it should be and the chairperson of the national security council is the president himself. One of the things that we think is important is that this council includes both state security, state intelligence and crime intelligence under the police.
"If critical structures are not sitting and paving the way forward, we will continue to lose with the crime.”
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