#Diepslootviolence: SAPS’ lack of action leads to community taking law into their own hands
8 April 2022
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng is calling on the Gauteng MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko to liaise with her national counterparts, the Minister of Police, and the Minister of State Security to urgently brief the Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s (GPL) portfolio Committee on Community Safety on the action that will be taken to quell the violence in Diepsloot.
We are greatly concerned that this violence will quickly escalate, and we will see similar scenes as we did in July last year.
The DA believes that there is a fine line between criminality and voicing your concern about undocumented foreign nationals.
While the country’s law must be respected and adhered to by all, we cannot have a situation where our residents take the law into their own hands and injure or kill innocent bystanders.