Three policing agencies are to meet on Tuesday to discuss ways to step up the fight against the continuing stonings on Cape Town’s highways, according to Western Cape provincial minister for community safety Leonard Ramatlakane.
This follows the weekend death of city motorist Nolan Daniels, hit by a brick thrown through a window of his car as he drove along the R300.
Ramatlakane said in a statement on Monday that the South African Police Service (SAPS), Cape Town’s city police and provincial traffic authorities will get together on Tuesday to discuss the incident.
He said that though the SAPS and provincial traffic were already deployed on the N2, a primary target for stone-throwers, the stone throwings were sporadic incidents.
”We shall have to find stricter ways to police this,” he said. ”What is clear is that those who throw stones on the highway do so and disappear within the informal settlements nearby.
”I therefore want to appeal to members of our communities near the N2 and R300 to assist our law enforcement and report suspicious people on the N2 and also to come forward and report those whom they know to have committed some of these incidents.” — Sapa