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APRIL/MAY2016
The forgotten people and their endless nightmare The nightmare is unending in ‘The Cape Flats Jungle,’ which has seen relentless gang battles and claiming scores of lives, mostly young men. Community activists are fighting against these menaces and threats which continued unceasing and seem only to be making the tragedy worse. Different organisations mostly from Bonteheuwel and Manenberg have put forward a structure to unite as many people as possible and to create a safe and sustainable environment. The work that should be done by governments is instead being carried out by organisations and volunteers, which take on the task of finding solutions. Last week the Western Cape MEC Community Safety Dan Plato visited Bonteheuwel with no clear cut plan and or strategy on how best to at least reduce the number of gang related fights.
Residents living in these parts are badly traumatized and are battling at their wits end to ensure the safety of children, often caught in the cross fire early in the morning on their way to school. A mass community peace march is plan for Sunday, April 24 in Bonteheuwel, to highlight one the strangest disparities still face by locals post-apartheid. One finds more police vehicles in the affluent suburbs of the Western Cape compare to police vehicles in the crime tormented areas of the Cape Flats. Many observers find this rather bizarre, to say the least. Whilst the situation in the Cape Flats areas, remains others lose their lives in attempts to change whilst the majority still hope for a positive change, which never arrives, and this after twenty odd years of democracy.
Nantes ladies lead the way
#IAMBONTEHEUWEL
#IAMBONTEHEUWEL responsibility for change lies with me. I don’t look outside for change, Not even the police, or government...Both institutions looks at us as ONE, so let’s Be. #IAMBONTEHEUWEL - means that I take it personal when someone’s child is murdered due to gang violence. Because it could have been my child. #IAMBONTEHEUWEL - means I take pride in my neighborhood, it’s people, its institutions and its infrastructures. Dirty Streets and poor workmanship disgusts me...
Mass Peaceful March
Drug sales and gang activity is rising and getting worse in Bonteheuwel. The community is threatened by random shootings on a nearly daily basis. Join local community organisations in a mass peaceful march through Bonteheuwel and Golden Gate on Sunday 24 April from 2pm.
The march will start outside the Multi-purpose (Thusong) center and will stop at Freedom square, where a memorandum will be handed over to the police commissioner, General Elvis Jula. Let us represent in numbers and remind SAPS & gang elements that our lives matters. Order and safety will be organised by SAPS and trained marshals.
Club members of Nantes Running, Bridgetown enjoying themselves during the Spar ladies race in Green Point on Sunday, where 27 000 people took part in the 10km and 5km race.
MASS COMMUNITY PEACE MARCH – SUNDAY, APRIL 21