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GALLERY: Mlungisi police, CPF celebrate Mandela Month with 98-year-old woman

GIVING BACK: Members of the Mlungisi Saps’ social crime prevention unit together with the community policing forum (CPF) and its youth structure closed off Mandela Month by celebrating with 98-year-old Nomaneji Beauty Matitise from…

SUCCESSFUL OPERATION: The police and members of the Ezibeleni community got together last weekend to fight crime in the area with positive results Picture: SUPPLIED

Ezibeleni residents’ actions to save lives, says top district cop

In a combined effort to curb contact crimes in the Ezibeleni area, the police, the CPF and members of the public recovered 136 dangerous weapons and a TV set last weekend. “The focus of the operation was to decrease contact-related…

CPF urges motorists to ensure vehicles are locked

The local Community Policing Forum (CPF) urges motorists to be vigilant in town, shopping centres, and Nonesi Mall in particular, as there was a syndicate using remote jamming devices to access vehicles. CPF’s, Juan van der Walt, said: ”…

HARD AT WORK: Saps Mlungisi social crime prevention, in partnership with the youth desk, sector crime forum, Mlungisi community policing forum and the station’s Women’s Network assisted a disadvantaged family in Enkululekweni last week Picture: SUPPLIED

SAPS partner to assist family

An impoverished family at Enkululekweni in Mlungisi was recently identified for a donation of food parcels and a home make-over. The program was initiated by members of the South African Police Services social crime prevention unit in…

Queenstown Community Policing Forum chairman Mihle Gogela

Queenstown CPF calls on residents to protect Komani

The Queenstown Community Police Forum (CPF) urges local residents to protect the jobs of community members and to preserve the town from those who wish to take advantage of the rampant looting and vandalism of businesses in the country.…

FURIOUS: Komani residents protest outside the Queenstown magistrate’s court on Wednesday calling for a couple accused of forcing a 12-year-old boy to eat his faeces to be kept behind bars Picture: LUVUYO MJEKULA

Anger after boy, 12, made to eat faeces

Komani residents this week expressed their anger at a couple accused of assaulting a 12-year-old boy and forcing him to eat his faeces. “It is worse when it is a mother who abuses, considering what we face as mothers,” said CPF member,…

BREAKING LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS: Komani residents who were travelling illegally during curfew hours crashed into a pole after refusing to stop for law enforcement officials Picture: NEELS FERREIRA PHOTOGRAPHY

Police chase ends in crash

A group of Komani residents were apprehended for violating adjusted level 3 lockdown curfew regulations in Top Town last week. Speaking to The Rep, Community Policing Forum (CPF) sector two chairperson Juan van der Walt said the K9 unit…

SHOWING CARE: The South African Police Service (Saps) and the Community Policing Forum (CPF) handed over groceries and clothing to a family in the Bonkolo basin last Thursday Picture: ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA

Community rallies to help family

Rape victim, 7, returns to live with struggling mother after suffering abuse while in her father’s care Local community services teamed up to support a seven-year-old girl in the Bonkolo basin who was allegedly raped by her 47-year-old…

CPF call to EMLM over meter contract

Motor vehicle break-ins had increased in the Komani CBD following the expiry of the parking meter contract with the former service provider which Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) had not renewed since December, Community Policing…