SAPS calling for help from above
The SAPS, together with the community of Tsakane, is now relying on God to help with gender-based violence, drug abuse and crime.
Tsakane – Noting the beginning of Women’s Month, the South African Police Service (SAPS) Ekurhuleni East Cluster, together with the Gauteng Department of Community Safety (DCS) and Tsakane Community Policing Forum (CPF), organised a women’s prayer session at the Central Methodist Church in Tsakane on Wednesday.
The aim of the event was to bring together women from different churches to pray for the community regarding drug abuse, particularly nyaope, gender-based violence against women and children, crime and other social ills.
Sergeant Lerato Mgomezulu from the criminal division at the Ekurhuleni East Cluster said it is high time women in the community gather to pray about every social ill in the community because the police, as well as other departments, are doing their part to ensure the safety in the community.
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“Enough is enough. We need divine intervention. We have tried everything, now it’s time to acknowledge that we
need God,” said Mgomezulu.
He went on to urge the community that it is time to put their differences aside and go to God as a community.
Women were urged to rise up and tackle the challenges embedded in the society because they are the pillars of the society.
Sonto Molomo, the chairperson of Tsakane CPF, agreed with her and added that the time for the community to be blaming the SAPS for increasing levels of crimes is over.
“It is high time that we stop blaming one another,” said Molomo.
She believes the community is falling apart because everyone who is supposed to take a stand is sitting down, and that’s why things go wrong.
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The community as a whole is urged to take a stand against drug abuse, crime and gender-based violence.
“We cannot continue to allow anyone to say women are cheap. Women are not for sale,” says Bhekizizwe Kubheka from the Gauteng Department of Community Safety.
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