Tebogo Mashilompane
National Leader of Forum for South Africa
By Tebogo Mashilompane
National Leader of Forum for South Africa (FOSA)
The Forum for South Africa (FOSA) strongly condemns the reckless and suspicious announcement by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia of a R600 million deployment of police and military forces in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape.
This is not leadership. This is panic spending, political posturing, and a potential looting opportunity disguised as intervention.
R600 MILLION — OR R600 MILLION TO LOOT?
FOSA demands immediate answers:
Who calculated this R600 million — and based on what?
Where is the detailed breakdown of every cent?
Which companies, contractors, and insiders are set to benefit?
How much of this money will actually reach policing and how much will disappear into corruption networks?
South Africans have seen this script before:
Big numbers, no transparency, and billions gone.
GOVERNMENT FAILURE NOW DRESSED AS ACTION
Let’s be clear:
Government has completely failed to:
Control illegal immigration
Secure South Africa’s borders
Protect communities from crime
Now that communities are rising and taking matters seriously, government rushes in with a R600 million headline trying to hijack the moment and claim false credit.
This is nothing but opportunistic politics.
DOUBLE MINISTERS, DOUBLE WASTE, ZERO RESULTS
Deploying both police and the military is not strategy it is confusion and waste.
Why are two state forces doing the same job?
How much taxpayer money is being burned through duplication?
Is this about safety — or about creating a feeding scheme for politically connected elites?
FOSA warns: this looks less like a security plan and more like a coordinated spending spree.
WE WILL NOT KEEP QUIET
FOSA demands:
A full, transparent, itemised breakdown of the R600 million
Immediate parliamentary investigation into this allocation
Independent audits to track every rand
Accountability for any misuse of public funds
If government has nothing to hide, it must open the books now.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
South Africans are tired of being treated like fools.
We will not accept:
Wasteful spending
Corruption disguised as intervention
A government that only acts when exposed or pressured
This R600 million deployment must not become another chapter in South Africa’s long history of state looting under the cover of crisis management.
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