Soweto killings: Lesufi laments ‘culture of lawlessness’

Lesufi’s remarks follow after the mutilated bodies of the two boys, aged five and six, were found in Rockville on Thursday morning.

This happened after the bodies were discovered by community members who alerted the police.

“Where I am it’s a culture of lawlessness that must not be tolerated where people feel that they can do what they want, where people play God, they determine who must live and who must die”, said Lesufi.

He was addressing the media in Soweto on the latest developments by the provincial government on Thursday evening.

Lesufi told the media that the provincial government has taken a decision to invest in the allocation of law enforcement for 24 hours a day in communities.

“We have all the necessary resources to be in a position to trace and check if somebody goes missing because we need to invest in those resources because we live in that era where children are missing especially women go missing every day.

“We might be here because somebody alerted us, how many people go missing but we don't even know that they have gone missing it’s a culture of lawlessness, a culture where people feel that they can do as they wish, and they will not be traced and not be tracked, and they will not pay for their sins and we are investing lots of resources.”

Lesufi added that close to 6000 patrollers will be released into communities from the first of May.

“From the 1st of May we are releasing close to 6000 patrollers to patrol our communities we have already procured almost between 200 and 400 cars that we need in our province.”

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