BOOTS ON THE GROUND: SANDF will work with police to give state ’monopoly of force’, says army chief

The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure is managing the coordination of more than 2,000 members of the South African National Defence Force in support of the South African Police Service, with efforts focused on ‘hotspots’ for illegal mining and gang activity in the Free State, Gauteng, North West, Western Cape and Eastern Cape.