QUESTIONS: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has rejected that informal settlements and underdevelopment are fueling extortion syndicates in Nyanga, Philippi and Samora Machel.
Instead, blaming the rise in organised crime on weakened investigative capacity within the South African Police Service.
Winder was responding to questions in the provincial legislature on Thursday about what non-policing interventions his government was implementing to tackle extortion.
He argued that the problem had escalated during the Covid-19 pandemic as criminal networks adapted and expanded their operations.
