Commandos are making a return

[Pitbull]

Could this be the beginning of the Commandos again ?

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Siphiwe Nyathi & Sydney Masinga


Nelspruit - Mpumalanga safety and security MEC Siphosezwe Masango has been urged to reintroduce the commando system following a recent spate of attacks on farmers in the Lowveld.

The victims included chairperson of the farmers' union Agri-Lowveld, Charles du Plessis, who died in hospital on Monday after being shot on his farm near Nelspruit last week.

Another farmer, Frik Coetzee (57), was killed on his farm in Barberton on Monday while his brother was seriously wounded.

The deputy leader of the DA in Mpumalanga, Watty Watson, said: "The incidents of farm attacks and murders in Mpumalanga have escalated beyond control in resent months and it now seem that Lowveld farms have been targeted during the past weeks."

He said police were ineffective when handling attacks on farms.

"The farming community of Mpumalanga is furious because they are totally unprotected and delivered to their own fate.

'Only certain group of people were benefiting'

"The commandos were visible all over the farms and were pro-active. It may not be permanent, but the government must at least try the commandos temporarily" he added.

Spokesperson for the department of safety and security, Moeti Mmusi, could not be contacted for comment, but the former spokesperson for the department, Nosisa Sogayise, has previously said South Africa could not return to the commando system.

She said: "The commandos were abolished because only a certain group of people were benefiting from their existence, so we cannot go back there."

There were 183 active commando units in 2004 when it was announced that commandos would be phased out following reports that they were being used to abuse and even kill innocent farm workers.

The commandos are all expected to be phased out by 2009 and replaced with a sector policing system made up of trained police reservists made up of individuals, including farm workers

 

[Generator Man]

I was part of the Kuruman Commando, 1997-2002. They gave us some basic training, an R1, a few rounds of ammo and a VHF radio with an emergency link to the HQ which was 145km away.

Bunch of beer belly drunks with a racist streak that where not good at anything other than playing rambo and intimidating people of colour, or people that didn't agree with them.

Not saying that they where all like this though.

Say, didn't the Government disband them because they said it was the SAPS's job to protect farmers? What happened to that?....

 

[TopNode]

"The commandos are all expected to be phased out by 2009 and replaced with a sector policing system made up of trained police reservists made up of individuals, including farm workers"

So who is gonna do the farming while the workers and farmers must protect the ground?

 

[Rozier]

Say, didn't the Government disband them because they said it was the SAPS's job to protect farmers? What happened to that?....[/QUOTE]

Nothing... as usual. BRING BACK THE COMMANDOS!