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UNCOMMON THREAD:

27th February 2026

By: Darlene Creamer

     

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For communities besieged by deadly gang violence and the negative spillover effects of illegal Zama Zama mining, something had to give. In response, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced plans to support policing in these areas through the deployment of South African National Defence Force troops. The question now is whether it will strengthen the country’s fraying thin blue line, or whether it will become knotted in rights and resource abuses.

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