City, province unveil plan to transform Manenberg

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THE City of Cape Town and the Western Cape provincial government have unveiled ambitious plans to transform Manenberg, a gang-ravaged township on the Cape Flats.

The deprived township has suffered years of neglect and has been ravaged by gang violence in recent times. It is also a hotbed for the illegal drug trade.

Part of the plan to transform Manenberg is to build a multimillion-rand safety and security policing training college in the heart of the township. The training college would house metro police trainees, metro and regional law enforcement officers, cadets and youth academy camps. It would be built on the site of the abandoned GF Jooste Hospital....
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Full Article Here... http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2015/07/22/city-province-unveil-plan-to-transform-manenberg

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What does Metro have to do with gangs?

They do traffic (sometimes) and things like law enforcement of bylaws.
 
AntiGanda said:
What does Metro have to do with gangs?

They do traffic (sometimes) and things like law enforcement of bylaws.
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Metro police police a major metropolitan area. They provide all general police services as well. They don't just enforce by-laws.
 
genetic said:
Metro police police a major metropolitan area. They provide all general police services as well. They don't just enforce by-laws.
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Not in CT.

They might go in for squatter removals, but that's about their limit. Maybe a bit of crowd control too.
 
its on the outskirts ffs. there is a metro office in another area. they do what they want irrespective. until national saps decides to tackle the problem fsuckall will happen. but we don't want cancer here so status quo will remain.
 
This is not just about crime prevention. That's a part of a bigger plan.

Meanwhile someone else gets away with charging 6 million each for shoddy houses rather than service the community...
 
This isn't all good news. To do the upgrades, a hospital is being closed down:

THE GF Jooste Hospital site has been sold to the City – a move which will leave the Manenberg and surrounding communities without a major hospital for the foreseeable future.

The hospital was closed down last year, two years after the provincial government had promised that by next year a bigger and more efficient GF Jooste would be reconstructed at a cost of R550 million.

Yesterday it emerged that a business plan case for the rebuilding of GF Jooste is being developed, and is due for completion by the end of this financial year.

Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo said the provincial government planned to build a regional hospital in Manenberg, to complement the newly built district hospitals in Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. But a new hospital will not be built at the GF Jooste site.
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Pilgrim said:
Not sure I follow you, the hospital is not being closed down, it has been closed down already. The property is vacant and is in the process of being bought so that it can be used for something new.
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It was closed down with the promise that a new hospital would be built. Now it isn't going to be built, instead a police college will be built.
 
cr@zydude said:
It was closed down with the promise that a new hospital would be built. Now it isn't going to be built, instead a police college will be built.
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We don't need a Metro police anyway. They are hopeless - even worse than SAPS.

There is talk of a merger, so what will become of the building then?
 
You definitely don't see the metro police around in Cape Town as often as you see the metro police in Joburg. I've noticed in Joburg the metro police are everywhere all the time, always randomly pulling people over at the side of the road. I hardly ever see the metro police in Cape Town, except if there's a roadblock or a riot.
 
deweyzeph said:
You definitely don't see the metro police around in Cape Town as often as you see the metro police in Joburg. I've noticed in Joburg the metro police are everywhere all the time, always randomly pulling people over at the side of the road. I hardly ever see the metro police in Cape Town, except if there's a roadblock or a riot.
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I see them nearly daily on my trek from the West Coast to town and back. A lot on the N1 and N2 too. Anyway, at least they perform their duties properly... unlike some area's in SA.
 
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