{"id":27341,"date":"2022-03-15T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=27341"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:27:21","slug":"we-need-each-other-pleads-western-cape-police-boss-at-emotional-community-meeting-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/we-need-each-other-pleads-western-cape-police-boss-at-emotional-community-meeting-on-crime","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We need each other,&#8217; pleads Western Cape police boss at emotional community meeting on crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A highly charged meeting between the communities of Manenberg, Heideveld, Tambo Village and Gugulethu in Cape Town revealed the anger and frustration of residents reeling from relentless crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t come and sit here and write something, and we don&#8217;t see action,&#8221; said one of the people who stepped forward to speak at a school hall on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, there is the imbizo, and you will see the vans every five minutes or so, but in two weeks there will be none,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The hall was packed, with people queueing up at the microphone to speak their minds to the deputy ministers of police Cassel Mathale, land reform Mcebisi Skwatsha, and high-ranking police officers, including Western Cape police commissioner Thembisile Patekile.<\/p>\n<p>It quickly became clear that the residents were not there to listen to platitudes. This was their chance to air bottled-up grievances.<\/p>\n<p>The central themes were that people want stipends, at the very least, to be paid to the volunteers of the community police forum and neighbourhood watches and that crime, gender-based violence and gangsterism must be dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you guys came in here, you had a full entourage, heavily armed and everything,&#8221; said Yusuf Hope, who described himself as an activist in Manenberg.<\/p>\n<p>He added:<\/p>\n<p>Manenberg is reeling from a spate of murders, with at least five people shot dead over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Eight killed in three days, as gang violence flares up in Manenberg, Western Cape<\/p>\n<p>One after the other, the residents pleaded for more support from the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s almost like the police are afraid of the gangs,&#8221; said Dudley August, who asked why the police did not have undercover agents among the gangs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem in our community is [that] people live in continuous trauma,&#8221; said Jonathan Jansen, from Manenberg Sector 1 community policing.<\/p>\n<p>Two residents complained that there were not enough Afrikaans-speaking police officers in Manenberg and Heideveld, and race reared its head a few times, with one complaint that black officers were placed in coloured neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not black. It&#8217;s got nothing to do with politics. It is our community. We need more people of our own,&#8221; said Belinda Pietersen.<\/p>\n<p>A woman speaking isiXhosa lashed out when people started talking over her, saying: &#8220;We were listening to you when you speak your language. Nobody can tell me what language I must speak here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One woman brought the hall to complete silence as she questioned why police or the courts had made no progress following a horrific attack on her in a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>A mother stood up to chide parents who ignored the failings of their children who were involved in crime.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Arendse, deputy chair of the Manenberg community policing forum, said: &#8220;We have lost faith in all these imbizos. You guys come, and you guys leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Julle het nie liefde vir mekaar nie (You don&#8217;t love each other),&#8221; said one woman who described herself as a drug addict to the residents.<\/p>\n<p>Strutting up and down in front of the panel as the programme director battled to keep things under control, she pointed at the deputy ministers and the police and said: &#8220;You, sort out your department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reply, Patekile urged people not to be divisive over language and race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need each other. We need each other,&#8221; said Patekile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not a matter of railway lines dividing the languages. Ek leer jou taal, jy moet my taal begin leer. (I learnt your language, you must start learning my language),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said people had a right to speak up if they felt they were not being understood at a police station.<\/p>\n<p>He rejected a suggestion that the placement of police officers was done by race in particular areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must not say, &#8216;He must be that colour&#8217;. It does not work like that. We were all born here,&#8221; said Patekile.<\/p>\n<p>Skwatsha told the residents his car had been stolen from outside his house in Gugulethu two years ago, and his son had his phone stolen.<\/p>\n<p>He asked residents to report any police officers not doing their job properly. He said that as a deputy minister, he did not always have a chauffeur, so he gets to drive himself and see things first hand.<\/p>\n<p>Mathale assured residents that the meeting was &#8220;not a talk shop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said that apartheid was deliberate and was costing the country dearly.<\/p>\n<p>People had to perform miracles to eke out a living, and some people turned to crime to do this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop working against your own people,&#8221; said Mathale.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the residents his number and added: &#8220;But this number is not a number that you call at 1am when you sit with your friends to show you are connected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t pay for the airtime here. It&#8217;s paid by yourself, so I must give [it to] you&#8230; so that we work better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Never miss a story. Choose from our range of newsletters to get the news you want delivered straight to your inbox.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. A highly charged meeting between the communities of Manenberg, Heideveld, Tambo Village and Gugulethu in Cape Town revealed the anger and frustration of residents reeling from relentless crime. &#8220;Don&#8217;t come and sit here and write something, and we don&#8217;t see action,&#8221; said one of the people who stepped forward to speak at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[274,315,279,314,740,482,312,275,295],"class_list":["post-27341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-crime","tag-gang-violence","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-south-africa-2","tag-western-cape"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;We need each other,&#039; 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