COSATU notes government’s efforts to restore law and order and re-establish economic supply lines in KZN and parts of Gauteng
16 July 2021
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) notes President Ramaphosa’s announcement of measures to address the violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. We welcome the efforts to restore law and order and reestablish economic supply lines in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng.
We hope the law enforcement organisations will learn lessons and improve their levels of efficiency. It is obvious that police need a people-centred approach that ensures that police officers form police partnerships with the communities they serve.
It is also clear now that with technological advancement, law enforcement agencies are now being forced to develop and improve their capacity to deal with the same anti-social and criminal behaviour, on the internet, that confronts them in the real-world
Countries can be destroyed through the internet, and it is now obvious that the internet has become a new battleground where criminals engage in their nefarious activities. We hope there would be no legal or bureaucratic bungling in this instance.