WATCH: Bring back the Forum to Port Shepstone, say protestors
There are calls for the Ugu Clean Up team (Forum) to return to the role it had in keeping the CBD crime free and clean.
Small business owners, informal traders and community members congregated outside the Port Shepstone Mall this morning calling for the Ugu Clean Up team (The Forum) to return to the CBD – to keep them safe again.
Bongekile Sithole from Mtwalume said she no longer feels safe walking around in the Port Shepstone CBD.
@southcoastherald WATCH | Protestors gathered outside the Port Shepstone Mall this morning (Nov 18) calling for The Forum to be reinstated. The South African Police Service is on the scene. *This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly. . #protest #portshepstone #kzn #theforum
Sithole says they she, like many, had hoped that after the mall opened the Forum would work as security.
She said her sentiments were shared by many, as could be seen by the support the protest received.
Chairperson of Ugu Clean Up, Khangelani Caluza, said The Forum had decided to stop operating.
“We bring customers to businesses through transportation. We also bring protection for the people who are buying from all these shops in town, but we not not given an opportunity to better some of our own?” he said, disappointed.
Informal traders said that ‘paras’ are back in town and that is causing problems.
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