Mbalula: 'Operation Fiela is not Hollywood, it's real life'

"Today it is not Hollywood, Muvhango or Generations. It is the real thing," Mbalula warned.

He was speaking at the launch of the second phase of the anti-crime campaign in Newtown on Tuesday morning.

Mbalula said Operation Fiela Two follows hot on the heels of successful anti-crime operations during the recent festive season. 

The anti-crime operation will focus on the proliferation of drug dens, as well as hijacked buildings and brothels. 

""All illegal drug trafficking and human trafficking dens in our country must be closed down like we did in the Eastern Cape, so that we don't see the acts that of what we are seeing in Kagiso," said Mbalula. 

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The minister was referring to protests by residents of Kagiso on Monday against illegal brothels and drug houses in the area. 

Community members destroyed police vehicles, and set alight various houses as well as a post office.

Mbalula vowed that the police would tighten its grip on criminals, so that South Africans do not have to take the law into their own hands. 

""Yes, people must not take the law into their own hands, but let's understand that nobody will take the law into their own hands if the law is being enforced and the authority of the state is actually grinding."

Mbalula will head to Kagiso on Tuesday afternoon to engage residents.