/ 19 September 2000

TROUBLED PEACE IN KHAYELITSHA

CONCERNS still remain about the reliability of local transport, criminal activity at bus stops and ongoing intimidation of commuters in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, where turf wars between taxi operators and bus companies claimed several lives earlier this year. This is in spite of relative calm having returned to the township, according to a report on transport operators and commuters by in Khayelitsha. A total of 45 peace monitors reported on developments at bus stops and taxi ranks for the report. The Khayelitsha Community Policing Forum said the project had been successful because it had achieved its twin goals of fostering public understanding and preventing conflict.