Special Report: Caught in the Crossfire: Politicians leverage endemic Cape Flats gangland violence ahead of election By Marianne Thamm MarianneThamm
BOILER-PIPE: Patrick Mbotho and Major-General Mzwandile Tiyo. Both Mbotho and Tiyo were later the focus of a successful Labour Court challenge by major-generals Jeremy Vearey and Peter Jacobs, who were both sidelined by the promotions of Mbotho and Tiyo. The question by Ramatlakane and Mbhele — whether MORT had been set up to rival the anti-gang unit and had caused severe disruption to ordinary policing units in the province in the process — is an urgent and pressing one.
In January 2019 Brigadier Manci wrote to Colonel Matthews of the provincial supply chain management of the SAPS. In the memo, Manci wrote: “ The Province will deploy 360 members on the following 13 stations as follows: Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Lingelethu, Harare, Delft, Bishop Lavis, Mfuleni, Mitchells Plain, Philippi East, Gugulethu, Cape Town Central, Kraaifontein and Philippi.” She further requested that 28 vehicles from other units in the province were to be diverted to MORT.