South Africa should deploy its military to combat domestic violent crime

Transnational criminal networks and cartels, including their trafficking, financial and resource-extraction activities and international efforts to counter them.

Two separate mass shootings killed 27 people within hours: 17 at a tavern in Wedela near Johannesburg and ten at a drinking venue in Lwandle near Cape Town. Police were investigating possible connections to retaliation, illegal mining and business rivalry, but had not established definitive motives.