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One voice Salt River Blackpool Football Club hosted a march against al cohol and drugs on Saturday. Community organisations, po lice, local councillors and resi dents all marched through the streets, speaking out against substance abuse in the commu nity. People turned up at the foot ball club in Shelley Street to watch the unveiling of the “Drug Free Area” sign. Here Saliegh and Laylah Gamiet from Cecil Road in Salt River have their say. See more on Page 3. Photo: Tauriq Hassen
Residents seeing flames TAURIQ HASSEN
SIZZLING sounds of irritation are coming from Harbour View flats in Woodstock, thanks to popular braai spot aMadoda Braai in Strand Street. Residents in the Bromwell Street block of flats are at the wits’ end with the noise coming from aMadoda and have come up with suggestions for authorities to fix the issue. Residents have lodged complaints with council about the persistent noise from the venue. They are also deeply annoyed by patrons’ noise while partying at their cars before and after visiting the premises, drinking in public as well as revving their engines. Leo Rust, a tenant and trustee for Harbour View, explains that residents have proposed some actions to be taken by the City. “This disturbance takes place virtually
every Sunday afternoon well past midnight and on some other nights too,” he says. Rust explains that over the past year, the situation has become “increasingly worse”, especially in the last six months, resulting in several complaints being lodged with the City and the police. Suggestions include the venue’s liquor licence be investigated. Tenants requested the City to deal with noise levels from the venue and not to allow drinking in public spaces. They also suggest no-parking zones to be enforced behind the Harbour View in Strand Street, nor in front of the building in Bromwell Street. aMadoda Braai falls under the Madworld business stable, which includes a number of businesses in Woodstock.
about this matter, but report it to the necessary contacts.” Andries van Wyngaard, the marketing director for Madworld, says they are are doing everything they can to address the issue. “We are not there to create trouble in the community, but we do want to reach a compromise,” Van Wyngaard says. “We do not want to operate outside the laws and we will be looking at putting further systems in place in order to tackle some of the problems the tenants might have,” he says. Richard Bosman, the Executive Director of Safety and Security for the City of Cape Town, confirms that owners of the venue have already been served with a compliance notice. “We are currently investigating the matter due to the fact that the complainant contacted Law Enforcement on 1 October, informing them that the problem had re-occurred,” says Bosman.
Over time, residents of Harbour View has had to endure being parked in, fire escape doors blocked by patrons, loud noise into the early hours, broken bottles in the road and patrons driving the wrong direction in Bromwell Street, which is a one-way street. Resident Anthea Wilson avoids her home on Sundays. “It’s terrible and the situation seems to be getting worse as the time goes on. I would rather not want to be at my house because there is constant music playing and people going on like hooligans outside,” she says. Rust continues: “These matters have been raised in several of our meetings with tenants and they are becoming really frustrated with this problem. There is very little we can do
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