The deployment of around 200 soldiers to the Cape Flats under Operation Prosper was intended to help tackle the area’s persistent gang violence and high murder rate.

The National Briefing · Sep 10, 2026 · 5m

The deployment of around 200 soldiers to the Cape Flats under Operation Prosper was intended to help tackle the area’s persistent gang violence and high murder rate. Between April and June this year, 646 people were murdered on the Cape Flats — 95 fewer than during the same period last year. That’s still an average of about seven murders every day.

Guest: Nkosikhona Swaartbooi, Cape Town-based human rights activist and Coordinator of the Movement for Collective Action and Racial Equity, Movement for CARE