SAFTU is calling for a national campaign against illegal firearms following deadly mass shootings [SOUND]

# The South African Federation of Trade Unions is calling for the creation of a broad national movement to disarm criminal gangs and reclaim communities from violence. This comes after two mass shootings in Gauteng and the Western Cape over the weekend claimed the lives of 27 people and left 26 wounded. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says government cannot treat the proliferation of illegal guns merely as a street-level policing problem; it must dismantle the entire economy that supplies the guns: