New police station finally opens in Khayelitsha, ending a nearly 20-year wait

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Residents of Makhaza in Khayelitsha welcomed the official opening of the long-awaited police station in the community on Thursday, nearly 20 years after a site was identified.

Police Minister Bheki Cele joined senior SAPS officers and members of neighbourhood watches and community policing forums at the launch of the R23-million station. This will be a temporary police station until a permanent station is built in the 2025/26 financial year.Cele told residents that the temporary station was in response to ‘the cries of the community of Makhaza who lived in fear’ due to the rising levels of crime in the area.

in 2014, it came to light that the construction of the Makhaza police station was the second highest in the priority list of stations to be built in the Western Cape, but nothing had been done. The Commission recommended that the SAPS fast track construction. Residents, some wearing political party branded t-shirts, gathered at the gates of the new station where an opening ceremony was held. Picture: Ashraf Hendricks

 

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