Cape Flats discuss their safety concerns and solutions during a summit held in Lavender Hill

Chumani Simelela

19 March 2016

The Department of Community Safety in the Western Cape says it wants to strengthen its partnerships with the Cape Flats communities in an effort to fight gangsterism as well as drug and alcohol abuse.

Various Cape Flats communities, which include Manenberg, Hanover Park, Lavender Hill and Phillippi will over the next two days discuss their safety concerns and solutions during a summit held in Lavender Hill.

Spokesperson for the Department of Community Safety, Ewald Botha, says…”other stakeholders like school principals and religious leaders have also been invited”.

"The Department of Community Safety is always looking at ways of how to expand the safety partnerships that they have, how to work better with the existing safety departments, but also how to learn from one another, and how to work better together to eliminate or eradicate the safety concerns that various communities have”