CAPE TOWN - August has been described as the bloodiest month in the Western Cape so far this year.
Police have been confiscating illegal weapons and making arrests, but anti-crime activists say that more than 300 people have been killed in August alone.
While police say their operations are yielding results, the gang violence continues.
Deputy Justice Minister, Andries Nel, together with Acting Police Minister, Firoz Cachalia, and Deputy Police Minister Polly Boshielo, were in Mfuleni and Mitchells Plain yesterday.
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They met with representatives from civic groups, religious leaders, and Community Policing Forums.
Cachalia acknowledged that gangs are thriving because of these socioeconomic factors. But they say they cannot be allowed to continue being a law unto themselves.
He proposed the kind of radical solution that has seen thousands of gang members locked up in El Salvador.
Nel reaffirmed the Minister's commitment and stated that they will push to combat crime in the province.