Inside Operation Marikana: Final day of the anti-crime mission

I am not anxious when my boots touch the pavement outside the Philippi metro police station in Cape Town’s Cape Flats region. But I cannot deny the sudden increase in my pulse rate. A brisk wind forces my hands into my pockets — which is also an attempt to look relaxed, playing it cool, as if I have done this before. 

I’m escorted to the officer I was told to meet, to facilitate my witnessing Operation Marikana first hand.