Starting today, the Western Cape Safety Forum is calling on residents to join a city-wide picket calling for intervention from police and government as innocent lives are being lost amid fierce gun battles.
Roegshanda Pascoe of the forum says in the lead-up to the launch of 16 Days of Activisim of No Violence against Women and Children on 1 November, they want Capetonians to start voicing their anger with pickets and posters across the city.
“We are calling on people to create posters and put it on their cars and blow their horns in the traffic to voice their concerns,” she says.
“We are calling on all churches, early childhood development centres, mosques to take to their main streets in their areas and start a chain reaction by picketing at 1pm everyday.
“The call is being made to everyone from Mitchells Plain, Hanover Park, Gugulethu and Manenberg and all the areas where they are shooting until 1 November.”
She says on 1 November, the forum plans to host a march through the Cape Town CBD to the provincial police offices and parliament.
“The Western Cape Safety Forum has been honest in saying that we know the people in the community are partly supporting gangsterism, those people who keep the guns and the drugs for them, but we are not giving up hope. We can save our communities and we can save our children,” adds Roegshanda.
For more information, call Roegshanda on 071 436 1504.