[GALLERY + VIDEO]: Community gathers for a clean-up campaign

COMMUNITY Cohesion and Safety Network (CCSN), volunteers and local children gathered around Rotunda Park in Turffontein to clean the area.

Neo Segapo, who led the clean-up, said this was the first of many activities in the greater Kenilworth area.

“Our community is bleeding from increasing levels of crime, the recent spate of unnecessary attacks on foreign-owned businesses and the sickening filthiness of our neighbourhoods. We are calling for support and active participation in our efforts to mobilise the community against crime and grime in the area,” he said.

Moving forward, CCSN calls for residents, neighbours, homeowners, local businesses, tenants, youth, churches, NGOs and schools to take charge, take back the streets and wage war against littering, illegal dumping and rampant crime.

“Let us bring back the rule of law by working closely with law enforcement agencies. Know your neighbour and look out for one another as neighbours,” said Segapo.

To register as a volunteer call or WhatsApp Segapo on 062 005 0909 or email info@ccsn-npc.org

CCSN is an anti-crime community-based organisation registered as a non-profit company (NPC) operating in the old Johannesburg South in Wards 55, 56, 57 and 124.

CCSN aims to eradicate the crime, by working with all relevant stakeholders in uniting the communities against crime and grime in a more practical way.

This will be achieved by working with homeowners, ward councillors, local businesses, CPFs, sector crime forums, SAPS, JMPD, crèches, schools, churches and NGOs.

Residents in these areas live in constant fear as these areas have become notorious for being crime havens.

Some of the crimes committed in these areas made news headlines, such as the killing of reggae star Lucky Dube in a carjacking in 2007 and the recent stabbing that led to the death of a learner at Forest High School.

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