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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

South Africa: Army Deployed to Assist Police Quell Violence - AllAfrica.com

Bathandwa MbolaPretoria

President Thabo Mbeki have got given the go-ahead to the South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit (SANDF) to step in and help police force squelch the onslaughts on foreign nationals.

The onslaughts have left at least 40 dead, and one thousands others displaced.

"President Thabo Mbeki have approved a petition from the South African Police Service for the engagement of the South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit in fillet on-going onslaughts on foreign nationals," a statement issued on Wednesday from the Presidency read.

This follows a petition by the Ministry of Safety and Security to the President to deploy the regular regular army to endorse up police force force in the fighting against the rabble action.

Explaining the deployment, Presidential interpreter Mukoni Ratshitanga told BuaNews on Thursday that the army will not replace the police but would be used as back up.

Mr Ratshitanga said: "... The police force made an appraisal that there was a demand for the deployment of the regular army in quelling the force against foreign subjects in the country, so that petition was sent to the President for approval."

Meanwhile, most parts of Gauteng were unagitated overnight, but the onslaughts have got started to distribute to other parts of the country.

Incidents were also reported in Durban and some townships in Mpumalanga.

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Mpumalanga police force force force said the shack-burning and robbery targeted at foreign subjects began on Tuesday and in KwaZulu-Natal, police were monitoring Durban's John Dalton Road country after an onslaught on a Nigerian-owned tavern.

The foreign subjects in these countries have got since establish safety at police stations.

Since the start of the onslaughts last week, 42 people were killed, over 16 000 displaced and 400 arrested.

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Comments:
Sorry? WTF? Where does this come from and why now? The incidents reported on are months old and whoever wrote this knows very little about the SA military. There is no such thing as the "South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit"
 
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