Lesufi calls on president to deploy army to flush-out zama-zamas
“I am very firm on that. Not only the army, but we need all law enforcement agencies’ firepower, the capabilities of those law enforcement agencies. If it is the army, the police, the metro police or whoever has that mandate to ensure that we protect South Africans, they must do so,” Lesufi said in an interview with Newzroom Afrika on Monday morning.
“Gauteng is under siege from people who are not citizens of this country, people that cannot be accounted for, people that are highly armed and we expect that the problem can be resolved by police that patrol on a weekly basis? We need all the necessary firepower that the country possesses. If that includes the army, I am one of the people to say they must be deployed,” he said.
The Gauteng premier said when deployed, the military should pursue the illegal miners who are underground in disused mines.
“They must go down there and flush those people, because we do not know them. You cannot use South African laws of apprehending them, making them to appear in court when you don’t even know how they arrived in our country. We must go down there, flush them out and let the last person stand and ensure that we have got prosperity and peace forever in our country,” he said.
