Samora Machel councillor calls for intervention over alarming crime levels

JOHANNESBURG - Ward 33 councillor in Samora Machel in Cape Town, Lungisa Somdaka, said that crime in the area had reached alarming levels.

He was speaking at a crime imbizo led by deputy police ministers Cassel Mathale and Polly Boshielo at a local high school. 

Samora Machel is one of the townships mostly affected by crime and features in the top 30 police stations with the highest murder rate countrywide. 

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Somdaka said that even service delivery trucks were afraid to enter the area fearing for their lives. 

"They make all of these people live in fear, so I hope that your presence here is going to make a difference and leave these people with hope that in the near future maybe there'll be a change in our community in terms of safety."