South Africa continues to face high levels of crime and violence that negatively impact business continuity and private life generally. While soldiers may suppress visible violence in the immediate term, they are not structured, trained, or mandated to perform policing functions required to combat deep-rooted criminality.

In this piece, Lunga Dweba examines the ongoing Operation Prosper deployment and makes the case for building policing capacity rather than substituting it.

Read the full analysis here.