Did the R600 million security plan for June 30th pay of
Early Breakfast with Africa Melane · 2 July 2026 · 9m
Speaker 1: the country on that day that helped prevent widespread violence or was it an excessive Speaker 1: cost for protests that were mostly peaceful. We are inviting this morning, doctor Kingsley, Marcobela, Speaker 1: risk analyst and former diplomat to chat to us about this and unpacked the story. Speaker 1: Doctor Kingsley, A very good morning to you and welcome to the Early Breakfast show. Speaker 1: it was actually six hundred million RAN reprioritize to secure national infrastructure and increase police Speaker 1: visibility. And I saw one or two pictures of even the army getting deployed in Speaker 1: certain areas. So a doctor with more than one hundred and twenty demonstrations taking place Speaker 1: and relatively limited violence during those demonstrations. Does it actually suggest that the sort of Speaker 1: security plan worked indeed? Speaker 2: You know, then we need to see the breakdown of the six hundred million. I've Speaker 2: had reports there by the ministers, the cluster ministers speaking about the money that some Speaker 2: of it allocated over times and so on, so that we manage the fiscal trap Speaker 2: may get police officers who hide the issue to allow this overtime issue. So we Speaker 2: need really to interrogate how the money was spent. Why was it necessary to allow Speaker 2: the situation to deteriorate to this level? Because if you look at what they were Speaker 2: doing, what the police did, it's part of their normal policy. So what was the Speaker 2: extraordinary? And I had the argument that we needed to deploy more because of the Speaker 2: nature of the demonstration. Was it informed by intelligence that they are instigators we intend Speaker 2: to make this…
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