ActionSA calls on Ramaphosa to declare a state of emergency on the Cape Flats [SOUND]

# ActionSA delivered a letter to president Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament in which it pleaded with him to declare a state of emergency on the Cape Flats. Between January and March this year, 208 of South Africa’s 240 gang-related murders occurred in the Western Cape. ActionSA’s Dereleen James says the victims of gang and drug-related crimes are human beings who are deserving of safety, dignity and freedom from fear, not abandonment and neglect: