Cele brings thunder to the Western Cape
16 May 2018
It is not only gangsters in the Western Cape who will have to look out for thunder of a different kind in the coming months, the police are also going after suspects in KwaZulu-Natal's political killings.
In his budget address on Tuesday Police Minister Bheki Cele announced the launch of Operation Thunder, through which members from specialised units from other provinces will be brought in to deal with crime in the Western Cape.
"We will be here over three months painting the Western Cape blue," he said, to much amusement from the DA benches.
He said within the next weeks tactical response teams and tracking teams would be "deployed in medium- to high-risk tactical intelligence operations dedicated to fighting cash-in-transit heists, armed robberies, murders, taxi violence and political killings".