\u2019n Geestelike leier van Bishop Lavis s\u00ea te veel mense praat net, maar slaan nie hand aan die ploeg om bendegeweld in di\u00e9 voorstad op te los nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bishop Lavis is een van die gevaarlikste plekke op die Kaapse Vlakte en bendegeweld is \u2019n daaglikse verskynsel. Maar as dit van Apostel Peter Barnes afhang, gaan dit nie vir lank wees nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barnes en nog twee geestelikes, Ivan Waldeck en Wesley Moodley, staan aan die voorpunt van \u2019n inisiatief om bendebedrywighede in Bishop Lavis hok te slaan deur praktiese projekte. So suksesvol is die projek dat twee bendelede, geswore vyande, nou al saam met hulle werk. Hierdie samewerking het gelei tot \u2019n skietstaking in die gebied wat as Die Berge bekend staan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barnes s\u00ea toe hy jare gelede in die destydse Transkei was, het hy by \u2019n snoeker- en sokkerklub aangesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJesus was gemaklik tussen sondaars, so ek was gemaklik in plekke waar predikers nie gewoonlik gemaklik is nie. In 2019 het ek sokker gebruik om strydende bendes in \u2019n gemeenskap bymekaar te bring. Met die Futsol-toernooi het meer as 2 000 mense bymekaar gekom en daar was geen geweld nie. Uit die toernooi is \u2019n Bishop Lavis-Futsolklub gebore,\u201d s\u00ea Barnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die inisiatief suksesvol was, het die Covid-19-pandemie \u2019n stokkie daarvoor gesteek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Desember verlede jaar het lede van die plaaslike gemeenskapspolisi\u00ebringsforum Barnes genader en gevra of hy nie ook by Die Berge betrokke wil raak nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn daardie stadium was daar twee strydende groepe wat mekaar voos geskiet het. Ek het op 12 Desember met die twee leiers vergader en hulle het ingestem om mekaar te ontmoet. Op 13 Desember het ek, Waldeck en Moodley met Howard Jansen en Cheslin Domingo, die bendeleiers, op \u2019n geheime plek vergader. Daar was nog ander mense, dus was ons uiteindelik 12 mense om die tafel en die planne is daar gesmee,\u201d s\u00ea Barnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kort daarna, op 17 Desember, is \u2019n groot Futsol-toernooi gehou. \u201cMense was maar skepties, maar die geleentheid het sonder voorval verloop. Jansen en Domingo het ook met die skare gepraat en om verskoning gevra vir hul dade. Dit was die begin van groot veranderinge, want daar heers \u2019n skietstaking in Die Berge,\u201d s\u00ea Barnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea egter hul werk is nog nie klaar nie. \u201cOns, saam met ander belangegroepe, is nou in \u2019n WhatsApp-groep en sodra ons hoor van geweld wat opvlam, weet ons met wie om te praat. Ander mense uit ander gemeenskappe het al gevra dat ons hulle moet kom help, maar ons wil eers \u2019n werkbare model hier vestig wat ons elders kan gebruik,\u201d s\u00ea Barnes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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