Results from Civic Mapping Exercise 1:

17 September 2009, Thursday


Saskia Kuiper

We met with the various members of the community (listed below) and discussed the issue of crime within the area. We spoke about what they were presently doing about it and what they hoped would be done. We received two different stories about the Community Policing Forum (CPF), and it boiled down to the fact that the variation was mainly due to political tensions. Mr Monde said that the CPF had dissolved (previously consisting of 20 members) leaving only himself and Mrs. Staki. Mrs Fuku, the Area Councillor, however had a different story, she said that there was a running and functional CPF. Mr Monde is ANC and Mrs Fuku has apparently joined COPE, so we are anticipating political obstacles. We were however able to get the various members in agreement that a community meeting should be held, regardless of political factions, focussing solely on the issue of crime. We have scheduled a meeting with the community for Wednesday 23rd September. We are to meet Unati Nonzobo at Human Resources to book Luvuyo Hall. The community members we managed to speak to felt the main type of crime was housebreaking and mugging. They also said that the police did help them with the problems.