Security ministers in Cape Town to ensure peaceful elections

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Cape Town - Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa is leading a team of security cluster ministers on a visit to election hotspots in the Western Cape in a bid to ensure stability ahead of the May 7 national elections. 

The delegation, that met with the Western Cape Provincial Commissioner earlier this morning, included the Ministers of Police, Defence, State Security, International Relations and Cooperation as well as Correctional Services.

The hotspots are characterised by intra and inter-political contestation and include the areas of Delft, Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain, Barcelona and Phillippi,  Manengberg, Tafelsig and Hanover Park, among others.

Today, the ministers will visit Manenberg, Hanover Park and Tafelsig.

This is the second in a series of visits the ministers are conducting in different provinces. Last week, they were in KwaZulu-Natal, a province that has in the past experienced political violence.

Manenberg is a township in Cape Town that was created by the apartheid government for low-income Coloured families on the Cape Flats. It has an estimated population of 70 000 residents. – SAnews.gov.za