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Talana elects Street Patrollers
The newly elected structures were urged to try and work with the community, for the community, by the community.
■ Je Jackson
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Earlier this week the Tzaneen police joined hands with the Greater Tzaneen Municipality in an effort to strengthen their efforts to fight crime in areas notoriously riddled with crime. One of these areas within the jurisdiction of the GTM, is the Talana hostel situated in the Tzaneen industrial area opposite the main electrical substation near the railway tracks.
“As the police, we joined hands with the GTM to implement the Talana hostel Street Committee and CPF sub-forum to work with the Tzaneen Police in our fight against crime,” explained Tzaneen SAPS communications officer, Sgt Maurice Nkhwashu.
Tzaneen’s station commander, Brig Charles Masinamela led a strong saps delegation including crime prevention commander Lt col Sekoto, social crime commander Cpt Mogoboya, Vispol warrant officer Mkhwanazi and social crime coordinator Sgt Ndlovu.
They were joined by GTM safety and security desk coordinator Mr Mokwena, Greater Tzaneen municipality CSF members Mr Manzini and Mrs Mabuza, DA ward Councillor Chrizelle Dreyer and Councillor Shai to oversee the election of a new street com- mittee at Talana hostel community hall.
The newly elected structures were urged to try and work with the community, for the community, by the community. The members were urged to always respect the laws of the Republic, to only fight against crime and not to abuse their status to try and settle scores with their foes.
Bulletin sent a media inquiry to DA Ward Councillor Chrizelle Dreyer to establish who the committee would be reporting to, how many members the Street Patrol team comprises of, how the mem- bers were selected and whether the drive to elect these CPF sub-forums and Street Patrol Teams would be limited only to Talana. At the time of going to print however, we had not received a full response from the Councillor as she was in the process of looking into other more pertinent matters concerning service delivery issues in her ward. We will follow up on this story with her in our next edition.
