SA National Defence Force (SANDF) members will be deployed to the Western Cape’s worst-affected crime areas, police minister Bheki Cele announced on Thursday.

Presenting his budget vote speech on Thursday, Cele said the deployment came about because of the high number of brutal murders in the Western Cape, most specifically in the Cape Town metro in the past few years...

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