Western Cape Premier Alan Winde. Cape Town is in crisis, with communities living in fear and children unable to play freely, writes Faiez Jacobs. As violence escalates and trust in governance wanes, Capetonians demand accountability and action from their leaders. Image: IOL
Cape Town is hurting. Our communities are carrying a weight they never asked for. Children cannot play freely. Parents live with fear as a constant companion. Neighbours close their doors early not because they want to, but because they have to. Every week the news announces another shooting, another family torn apart, another neighbourhood traumatised. And now we learn confirmed again that the 28s gang has reached the highest levels of SAPS in the Western Cape. This is not a rumour. This is not a whisper. Judge Daniel Thulare warned us about this in 2022. The Western Cape Police Ombudsman confirmed it in a report sent to Premier Alan Winde three years ago. Three years. Three years in which communities buried their children. Three years in which trust in the justice system collapsed. Three years in which families asked for answers and received silence. Three years in which our DA province told us it believed in “clean governance”, yet hid the very report tha
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