It's 'war' on the Cape Flats as gang-related death toll mounts | GroundUp_News
On Tuesday evening, a consultative meeting to discuss safety was held with the Mitchells Plain community, its leaders, members of the Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum , SAPS and Correctional Services. The meeting was chaired by Lennit Max, police minister Bheki Cele's special adviser. About 70 people attended the meeting."We're calling it a war, because that's what it is.
Basil Coetzee, a community activist, said the community should move from criminal justice to"people's justice". Coetzee said the current justice system favours criminals. He said police should be rotated in the various areas. "When gangsters are on first-name terms with police officers, I worry," he said."It's a relationship that should not be there."
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