JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has OFFICIALLY surrendered. In a shocking admission of TOTAL state failure, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared he is SENDING THE MILITARY into the streets of Johannesburg and Cape Town, revealing a nation held HOSTAGE by armed gangs and rogue mining syndicates. This isn’t law enforcement; it’s a DESPERATE last stand against anarchy.
“Organized crime is now the most immediate threat to our democracy,” Ramaphosa confessed to a stunned Parliament, painting a picture of a country where CHILDREN are caught in gang crossfire and citizens are TERRORIZED out of their homes by armies of illegal miners. His solution? Deploying soldiers against a shadow war the police have already LOST. This move exposes a chilling truth: the government’s authority has COLLAPSED in its own economic heartlands.
The so-called “zama zamas” are not petty thieves. They are a FOREIGN-FUELLED, hyper-armed criminal militia, pillaging an estimated $3 BILLION in gold last year alone from the nation’s 6,000 derelict mines. They operate with impunity, while the official homicide rate soars to one of the world’s worst—63 lives erased EVERY SINGLE DAY. The government’s own stringent gun laws now mock them, as illegal firearms flood the streets held by those who fear no consequence.
This deployment is a bandage on a hemorrhaging wound. Ramaphosa’ vague promises of “technology-driven intelligence” ring hollow against the reality of troops preparing for urban combat. The plan, to be drafted in mere days, signals a PANIC response, not a strategy. When the army rolls into neighborhoods, it’s not to restore order, but to occupy a failed state.
The world watches as a democracy crumbles, not from a coup, but from a creeping cannibalization by the very criminals it failed to stop. The line between state and syndicate has vanished.
Author: Kayitsi.com
