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DEPT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY HOLDS IMBIZO

Members of the peace committees

Eastern Cape Community Safety MEC Xolile Nqatha Safety ambassadors
addressing Community Safety Imbizo at Ward 16 at
Isolomzi Primary School on 25 November 2025.
speaker made mention of project he handed over to
being victims to stock theft peace committees 70
Eastern Cape Department of leaders, the South African and with investigations blankets, 50 torches, 35
Community Safety held a Liquor Board, and local bearing no tangible results. two-way radios,18 bags and
Community Safety Imbizo, committees. MEC Nqatha reaffirmed that water bottles. Safety
themed " Musa Ukuthula Elundini Local Municipality community safety is a ambassadors were handed
Kus o na ka l a " (l o o s e l y especially Ward 1, 6, 7 and 8 shared responsibility and 10 two-way radios, 30
translated 'don't be silent are one of the areas in the torches, and 19 bags with
while things get worse') at Eastern Cape faced with committed to following up water bottles and hats.
on concerns raised, urging
Ward 16 at Isolomzi Primary high numbers of stock theft communities to continue Community Policing Forums
School on the 25 November and these wards are reporting crime. “We cannot were handed 16 bags, hats Communities who came out in numbers
2025. and water bottles.
bordering neighbouring win the fight against crime if
Led by MEC Xolile Nqatha Mhlontlo Local Municipality. we remain silent,” he said. He also handed netball and
the event brought together ELM is an impoverished area MEC did not come empty- soccer kits from the youth
m a j o r s t a k e h o l d e r s , where communities are handed as part of this legacy who requested them.
including SAPS, various heavily reliant on communal
government departments, farming as a form of living.
municipalities, traditional Stock theft is a great threat in
leaders, the JCPS Cluster, the area wherein during the
CPF structures, religious Imbizo, speaker after

Communities who gathered during imbizo

Safey ambassadors who were handed over
tools of trade.

Peace committees were handed tools of trade