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Come. It's great to have you with us. Thank you so much, Clarence. Thanks for having me. And I look forward to having you on the ocean with us. I'm there every day. I'm there every day, literally, most days in the week. I'm lucky to live pretty close to it. But I think people in Strandfontein live pretty close to it. I don't think they, and people in Kailicha lives, they live very close to the ocean. I don't think necessarily they see it in the way that I do. Why not? Well,

To be concentrated around looming elections, and you would have been impacted by it. You would have been impacted on the end two. You would have been impacted in recent weeks on the Art 300. And Mfuleni residents are vowing to continue such protests on the ART 300 and on the N2. We're going to get close to the action. What are the demands? What are the needs of Mfuleni residents? Talani Mghazi of City Vision will join us at about 20 past nine o'clock. And then we

Increase the risk of payment disruptions. A Mitchells Plain crime activist has expressed concern about sexual abuse of minors in the community, saying she deals with a new case daily. Statistics from the Tutuzela Care Center, located inside Mitchells Plain Hospital, show over 50 to 60 percent of GBVF survivors treated at the facility are minors under the age of 18. Cape Flat Safety Forum Secretary Lynn Phillips was part of a gender-based violence and femicide roundtable discussion.

Financial arrangements and increase the risk of payment disruptions. A Mitchells Plain crime activist has expressed concern about sexual abuse of minors in the community, saying she deals with a new case daily. Statistics from the Tutuzela Care Center, located inside Mitchells Plain Hospital, show over 50 to 60 percent of GBVF survivors treated at the facility are minors under the age of 18. Cape Flat Safety Forum Secretary Lynn Phillips was part of a gender-based violation.

Let me talk about South Africa because I am indigenous South African, but I've done research in the whole continent, which I'm not even getting funding for a self-funded project, trying to find out exactly how we live because I'm advantaged to speak so many languages in South Africa, though, being taught, I can speak Nyanga, I can speak Bemba, I can speak Israeli. That's how I'm blessed. And now I know who I am, I know my roots, and I've encountered such things.

Practice every day. You've got to do put in your time. You can't miss out. And I think these are the kind of habits that we want to teach in schools as well. You know, just in the regular school system, not just on the sports field. Mark Potterton, thank you for talking to us this afternoon, Principal of Immaculata Secondary School. In Soweto, Andrew says, I believe in some Mitchell's Plains schools, troublesome kids are told to remain home and only attend for exams, but they are.

And the safety with regard to that particular area and the immediate action that the city of Cape Town now has to take. But if you look at the public protectors report, it also affects many other areas like Dunoon, Blackiesdorf, Mitchellsplain, and many other areas. So at the end of the day, as a mayoral prospective mayor of the city of Cape Town, what would I have to do? We cannot ignore the public protectors report. That is one of your first actions. You've got to do an audit throughout the city of Cape Town, also with regards to

The department says false claims are circulating that Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, or the department, decided to suspend so-called good cause interviews for asylum seekers. It says the change was not a political decision, but the direct consequence of a binding constitutional court judgment handed down in July. These are not the stories at 12 or as they happen. EWN traffic in Philippi, there's a protest on government.

In Constantia, Durbanville, half an hour tops I saw on the group the other day, the truck is there repairing the light. The same services you have to for the same complaint in Mitchellsplain, any other community on the Cape Flats, it's maybe a week or two that you have to wait. So a well run city for who? When we keep on saying that the DA is doing the best and we keep on showcasing and saying that you know what, in comparison to the ANC, near Clarence, we cannot keep doing that comparison.

Is not the Democratic Alliance. It is other parties who are still understanding and comprehending the roots and where they come from. Okay, I'm going to restrict you to three minutes so we can kind of, in a nice way, equitable way, kind of share the time. But let's go to Dereline. Dereline, your view. Travis, Action ESA is not yet. Are you guilty? Okay. Sorry. Action ESA is not here to perpetuate the inequality that's already existing in the Western Cape, especially on the Cape Flats.

Well, considering the colored voter, I mean, I come from the Mitchellsplain area and I've kind of witnessed the target on especially Mitchellsplain because our people seem to be so susceptible and in a particular mindset of fear. If they're going to vote for a particular party other than the Democratic Alliance, they're going to continue to suffer. But yet, we have witnessed a herd mentality. And I'm sorry, I see it a lot in Mitchell Splain.

This is more than local. It's personal. It's personal. This is Cape Talk. We join the conversation with Clarence Ford. The news, we're into that third and final hour. We've got that mayor candidate conversation that's going to be happening at Town Hall. So folks have gathered here with us at our labs in Mitchell's Plain. And so to our mayoral.

I think by now we all know what is unfolding on the Cape Flats, and we all know the challenges, we all know the shortcomings. I want to speak about the solutions, the solutions that Action ESA has to offer the residents of the Cape Flats. First and foremost, you all know I'm an activist, I'm very passionate about substance use disorder, and I recognize the many moms who have to flee from their homes because that's where it starts: you know, being violated, being attacked by their very family members, their very children. As Action ESA, we will ensure that we have safe spaces, safe spaces for

GBV Scourge. And we've been chatting to Linda Phillips and Captain Abrams from Saps in Mitchell's Plain. We are going to take a closing comment. Let's go to Dr. Sherith Sanger. I think if you can bring it near and soon to be, Doctor. Sorry. I don't want to scratch out that DR because I think maybe you can bring it all together. Political whirl, political whirl. Yeah.

Would represent this amazing job that they have in the manner that this captain does. Okay, being long in Mitchell's plan, I can vouch for that. The sector commanders do go out and we do have meetings on the fields, open fields, so that we can draw. But for me, training is important for your visible police officers because they are the ones that is the first one that comes to your house. And if they treat you with hostility as

Are in Mitchell's Plain. We are looking to decisively deal with the issues, and we're wanting the political leaders to bring political will to the equation and put a stop to the trends that, yeah, we haven't even reined in the trends. It is still growing. So, Dr. Alicia English is a founding member of the Mitchells Plain Legacy Project, a resident here as well. This is Poverty of the Soul. You're looking to maybe fill up some vacuums there, are you? Yeah, I think when we talk about poverty, poverty of the soul,

Important than that, and that's poverty of the soul because only that could manifest in the ugly patriarchy that we are experiencing, the social ills. We get poverty, but we don't get the ugliness that comes with poverty of the soul. With you know, people I've walked across the continent, but there's an anger in this particular country. Maybe I should talk to Dr. Alicia English, founder, member of the Mitchell's Plain Legacy Project. We are getting a fix on GBV.

To talk about protection orders. We often hear stories in South Africa about police kind of failing victims with protection orders. What's going wrong there, and how would you treat a protection order in Mitchell's Plain? Well, a protection order is a very good document for a victim. And unfortunately, our people do not know that. That's why my driver is always educating our people.

Care center just for reference purposes. It's at Mitchells Plain Hospital. It was opened to provide medical, legal, and forensic support to GBV survivors. It handles, apparently, a very heavy clinical caseload distinct from police dockets. Have you got experience with this Tutuzela care center? Is that the kind of model that is an important part of our response to this pandemic? I really think that that is important.

Because this is more than local, it's personal. It's personal. This is Cape Talk. We join the conversation with Clarence Ford. And a very warm welcome back to views and news with me, Clarence. It is seven minutes past 10 o'clock into that second hour. And of course, it is a live town hall. It's coming from our labs in Mitchell's Plain. We are, of course, talking to some.

Thank you so much for your call. Bona Kele is on the line to us from Kailicha. Bona Kele, good morning. A very good morning. How are you doing? I'm fine, thanks, Bonakele. You're late today. It's 9:47. Where have you been? Look, I'm on the road. That's the thing. In fact, but look, there's something that worries me. I'm gonna talk about the issue of lungies.

Stop with you, Captain, because I've been looking at the stats. Is it correct to break the entire Mitchells Plain down into the Mitchells Plain Precinct and the Lentecher Precinct? Yes, that's correct. Mitchells Plain used to be on its own only had Mitchellsplain Police Station, and government then recognized that the population was growing and we needed more police stations. So the Lentecher Police Station.

Is a town hall. We are in Mitchell's Plain confronting the issues that the community of Mitchell's Plain is confronting. GBV on the agenda. Please be part of the conversation via WhatsApp at 072-567-1567. Plenty of voice notes in as well. We play catch up on that on that WhatsApp line. A warm welcome to you, Lynn, and Sherith Sanger, and of course, Captain Abrams. It's great to have you with us. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Maybe I should.

And while local government elections are due for the 4th of November, today, a whole lot of GBV cases are going to be brought and charges are going to be brought to Mitchells Plain SAPS or Lentia SAPS to primary stations, police stations in Mitchells Plain. So we're going to have a roundtable on GBV. Yes, gangsterism is a problem. It plays out in the streets, visible to other community members, and often the

I think a lot of people is going to use that to inform their vote. We're going to have to wrap it there. Oscar vanieran, thank you, Dr. Oscar van Yeren, setting the scene. We are in Mitchell's plane today. Of course, there are important things, new things. For example, the Auditor General's finding, a finding that marks the end of Caetown's long streak as the country's sole metro with a completely clean audit. This is new, and we should be flagging this.

They had 41.8% of the vote. 2011, 60.92% of the vote. 2016, 66% of the vote. And I was very fortunate to be a radio presenter for a long time. I know that for four years, I was with Mayor Heland Zilla, and she had the mayor's show right across from me in the same studio. And she would talk to community. She would talk to people from Mitchell's Plain. She would talk to people from Guggs, from Kyalicha. The lights weren't working.

Solutions that are going to be worthy of our time and consideration. You come with solutions. You're solutions-oriented. Is that a personality or what? Is that a deep faith in the people that you grew up with, in your social history, in the community? You got a sense of what is possible here? I mean, you know, when you grow up on the Cape Flats, you have to be solution-driven. When there's no meal to eat, you think about the next meal. You gotta make a plan.

Being able to kind of take this model also elsewhere as well. Yeah, and what about maybe incentives, incentives for entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs like you to come and join you in Mitchell's play and provide work over here and opportunity over here? You know, there's a lot of social enterprises that do amazing work. Entrepreneurs has got a very kind of social mandate. I think there's an opportunity for institutions and partners to really kind of get alongside many of these entrepreneurs. One of our

You really have shown us a way to deal with apartheid spatial planning. This could easily be replicated in other townships. Absolutely. You know, for us as Ard Labs, we've always kind of believed that your greatest investment that you can make is investing in people. And that has always kind of been part of our mission. We want to see the reconstruction of communities. And I mean, over the last couple of years, we've seen that, how we've been able to kind of start the journey from the Cape Flats.

Growth venture, residents were forced to leave their community every morning. When we talk about Mitchell's Plain, we talk about all the townships around Caetown as well. Enter our Labs. Now, our Labs are host today specifically Marlon Parker, who founded R Labs in Mitchell's Plain in 2008, an award-winning social enterprise. They deal in innovation and tech academy, they deal in incubation and acceleration, they deal in social innovation, and they

And famous side. We're going to really deal with issues on that particular front. And of course, ask those mayoral candidates to join us a little later on some pretty serious questions about the needs of the city and the communities that they're seeking to serve. So that's Views and News, a very special town hall out of Mitchell's Plain, and you're welcome. Views and News with Clarence Ford. We all have a voice. Use yours. Call 0 to 1, double force.

It's personal. It's personal. This is Cape Talk. We join the conversation with Clarence Ford. And it's a very good morning to you. We are live from Mitchell's Plain this morning. It is eight minutes past nine o'clock. My name is Clarence. It's views and news through till 12 o'clock. Mitchell's Plain, Mitchell's Plain, Mitchell's Plain. 50 years old. A very significant milestone accomplished, of course, this year and being celebrated around Mitchell's Plain. We are here to talk about.

There's some tough questions that they're going to have to deal with a little later on. So that's where we are in Mitchell's Plain at our labs. And we are going to get up front and personal with the mayoral candidates. And I'm looking forward to it. It's Clarence Ford in 18 minutes' time on our conversation of parental choice and school choice. Lisa says private school almost not a choice if you have a girl child for better safety and an academically strong girl child for better learning opportunities.

So we're going to have a roundtable on related matters. Lynn Phillips of the Cape Flats Safety Forum will join us. Dr. Alicia English, founder and member of the Mitchell's Plain Legacy Project. Dr. Sherith Sanger, acting director of UWC's Gender Equity Unit. And Saps will also be represented. Captain Abrams will join us for the initial roundtable on the GBV Scourge and then a mayoral debate. And again, we have some of the mayoral.

Clarence Ford and views and news is at his election roundtable in Westridge in Mitchell's Plain this morning. Clarence, what can we expect? I'm feeling a little vulnerable without you by my side, but I brought some incense to some young stockies with me today. We are in Mitchell's Plain, and we know the reality of Mitchell's Plain, born out of the hushed geometry of apartheid spatial planning, conceived in the 70s under the Group Areas Act. We are at a place called

They have found that it reduces the temperature by between five and seven degrees Celsius in a shack. And that is an immediate solution. The researcher we spoke to was actually, she's never been in a project like that where you implement a solution today and tomorrow it works. And it increases the quality of sleep significantly. When they studied people in Kailicha and compared their sleep to other countries that they're studying, they found that people in Kalicha.

Is being taken from the safety and security budget, and you spend it on other safety and security budget items. You don't transfer it to housing. That's not the way budgeting works. The Auditor General doesn't allow the transfer of funds from one budget to another in that way. EWN traffic. It is brought to you by OUTsurance in partnership with Cape Talk. Happening now in Blue Downs at East River Way and

Welcome from 9 to 12. It's town halls, and we are planning three. This is number two of three. And I know that it's going to be the ground zero of a battle for support in Mitchell's Plain. People are looking for the colored vote to essentially deliver some very significant political change in South Africa or in Cape Town specifically. Let's be clear about that. And we're going to hear what the pitch is essentially.

Their dreams for a Captown. We also gonna look at the issues as they manifest in Mitchell's plane. Lots of issues that we're gonna contend with out on that side. But again, a bit of a microcosm. Mitchell's plan is. We're gonna look at GBV very specifically in Mitchell's plan. Do you think that gangsterism is the big issue in Mitchell's plan? It is, in fact, gender-based violence. And we're gonna round up the people. We're gonna talk to the people about GBV in the context.

Don't forget that WhatsApp line: 072567-1567. Yeah, did you think that he was only capable of honky tonk? He was capable of a whole lot more. Um now tomorrow I'm going to be out in Mitchell's Plain and I'm quite looking forward to it. We'll have another couple of mayoral candidates joining us. We're going to be talking to them about their pledges and their

Back in Jobuk already. Errol, you've called in from Blue Downs on the issue of fuel. Good morning. Good morning, Africa and the listeners. Africa, you know, BT and Engine, those are the two of the few suppliers in the country that I know imports ready-made fuel, petrol. I don't know about the diesel, but I know they imported petrol already refined. And then just the additive is added at well, in Cape Town at the astronom plant.

So, so happy. So, Anela and Frankie and some of the team were driving on the BMW IX3 and having just a wonderful time driving from Johannesburg. Sorry, yeah, from Santinj to Durban. They flew back. So, those who are fans of Anela and the club on 947 between 6 and 9 in the morning, not to worry. She, Frankie, and the entire team are going to be there today because they are back in Joburg already. Errol, you've called in from Blue Downs on the issue.

So until you address the social economic conditions of the Cape Flats, so you'll pump money, billions, and everything to be another wasteful expenditure because you are not dealing with the road crosses of what drives such time in such areas like you in in the Western Cape in the Cape Flats in Parts. So to me, that's a problem that it's a

Certain truths when you speak of certain things, right? So, areas mentioned included Mitchell's Plain, Hanover Park, and Al Dorado Park. And then, more than a year later, the MPs want clarity on what those measures were and whether they have been implemented or not as well. What happened to the promises? The promised extraordinary measures to tackle the gang violence within the Western Cape because Umton said ordinary policing wasn't enough.

Things that one can recognize and identify as the child feels safe, you know, as the feeling of safety accesses the child, and you can see the child becomes more relaxed in this space. Okay, well, there we are. Lots of hope there. Wendy Abrams, the founder of the Advanced Educos Foundation, resident of Strangfon Tain, grew up in Mitchellsplain, and this is really for the Mitchellsplain Safety and Development Forum, launching a trauma-informed quality program for.

Thank you. When you're saying Stranfon, I'm being very nostalgic because I've certainly been to the beach in Stranfonte and to Mitchell's Plain, and I plan to come to Cape Town this weekend. So there we are. I am being nostalgic. Having said that, there are problems, and we know there are many problems in township developments like Mitchell's Plain. So tell me what the plan is. Okay, so Mitchell's Plain Safety and Development Forum is a forum that brings together government, police, civil society, and the business sector all around.

In the city at the weekend, hoping to show up the party's supporter head of next month's local government elections. In Kailicha, Site B, frustrated voters question the effectiveness of service delivery from ANC ward councillors, pointing to potholes and streets overflowing with sewage. Quinton Tiala reports: Head of the ANC's Cape Town Regional Task Team, Niti Nikido, said Guernomantas' visit to Kailicha was to encourage the party's army of volunteers who are knocking on doors trying to convince.