LISTEN: DA will transform and clean up police, says Maimane
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it will transform the police into a clean crime-fighting machine should it win the 2019 general elections.
Party leader Mmusi Maimane addressed hundreds of supporters at the launch of the party’s national election campaign in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The latest crime stats show that 57 people are killed in South Africa every day.
“Our message speaks to fixing our police force so that it can actually protect and serve the people. I worry about the gunshots my children hear on the TV, but these gunshots happen every day in communities like Nyanga and Mitchells Plain. Right now, our police force can’t keep our communities safe. They’re not properly trained to do so, and they are riddled with corruption.”
The DA has vowed to bring back the gang and drug units that were disbanded by the government.
ALSO READ: Magashule: I am prepared to testify at Zondo commission
Maimane said there has not been any change since President Cyril Ramaphosa moved into the Union Building.
“We know now that our country did not enter a new dawn after Jacob Zuma left. It is clear that nothing has changed. The same corrupt people that sold our country to the Guptas under Zuma still occupy the top positions in this new government. No one was ever charged. No one was ever prosecuted.”
He said when the DA is in power, anyone found guilty for corruption will be jailed for 15 years.