Former gang member Sammy Andries spent years dodging security cameras watching over Cape Town. Now he is an unlikely supporter of the city's plan to check an epidemic of violence by pouring millions into surveillance technology.
It is part of a record R5.8bn safety budget for 2023-2024 that also includes cash to expand a police college and hire more officers.But many residents said officials also need to look at the drivers of crime and violence in a country marked by high levels of inequality, poverty and unemployment.
“Gangsters will just adapt. We have to fight crime with jobs, safe spaces, cricket fields and role models to set good examples — we need to fight crime with opportunities.” The city's growing arsenal of tech will allow it to “anticipate problems”, said safety and security MMC JP Smith. The city will add to its 6,500 CCTV cameras and is trialling drones, aircraft surveillance and control rooms that filter through the reams of footage, Smith told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video interview.
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