Lucinda Evans, who has dedicated her life to social work and justice for women and children, was elected last week as chairwoman of the Mitchells Plain Cluster Community Policing Board.
Lucinda is also the founder of NGO Philisa Abafazi Bethu (Heal our women), which she started in her dining room in Lavender Hill 10 years ago, and the organisation now operates from an office in Grassy Park.
The community worker has been very active recently on the murder cases of two girls Rene-Tracy Roman, 13, from Lavender Hill and Stacha Arends, 11, from Mitchells Plain.
Overwhelmed by her promotion, Lucinda says she feels confident that she will be able to lead and has lots of plans to help develop other CPFs.
“I am very humbled that the chairpersons of the Mitchells Plain Cluster feel confident that I am able to lead them,” she says.
“Together we will build partnerships with communities and strategies to help keep communities safe.
I will be starting my new position immediately and one of the first plans is to meet with the cluster commander and do some planning.
“One of the plans is capacity for building training for CPFs, neighbourhood watches, block committees and flat committees, training that includes human trafficking training, first aid, child safeguarding and domestic violence awareness.”