Reeds vroeg in 2019 het inwoners in die Sonnekuil-buurt aangrensend aan Soneike die intrek van plakkers by die kanaal oorkant die Netcare Kuilsrivier-hospitaal begin aanmeld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baie e-posse, frustrasies, misdade aan eie lyf of eiendom, versekeringseise, uitgawes en verwysingsnommers later is vele nou, om dit lig te stel, gatvol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TygerBurger<\/em><\/span> het gesels met Jacqueline Smit wat \u2019n dagsorg vanuit hul eiendom in Bosmanstraat bedryf en met John Nel van Specialised Security Service (SSS) wat in Soneike woon. SSS dryf \u2019n petisie onder inwoners aan die Stad Kaapstad om \u2019n oplossing vir die probleem te vind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit s\u00ea hulle het al hul erf se muur laat ho\u00ebr maak, maar daar kom twee, drie keer per week indringers op die werf. \u201cOns versekering dink ons pleeg bedrog. Ons eis helfte van die goed nie meer nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drie jaar terug het Smit en haar seun op \u2019n vrou in hul huis afgekom. Dit was nie die eerste keer dat sy deur misdaad geraak is nie en van daar het dinge net erger geraak, vertel sy. \u201cNou gebruik ek medikasie vir angstigheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle het al hoeveel keer hier probeer inbreek. Dis baie erg. Jy gaan kanaal toe en sien jou goed daar l\u00ea \u2013 dan s\u00ea die polisie ek mag nie die goed vat nie, want ek kan nie bewys dis myne nie. Moet ek my naam op alles skryf?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Plakkers in die omgewing \u201cnaby die hospitaal\u201d is al in Januarie 2019 onder die Stad se aandag gebring volgens e-pos van \u2019n inwoner wat TygerBurger gesien het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit het in Desember 2019 aangemeld dat daar ses mense by die kanaal bly. \u201cToe raak dit nege en toe 12, en ons het gemeld dat hulle shacks<\/em> opsit.\u201c Hoewel wetstoepassing se kantore daar naby is, het gehuggies verys en nou is die proses om mense te verwyder \u201camper onmoontlik\u201d, s\u00ea Smit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die probleem is nie met haweloses as sodanig nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Inwoners voel onveilig. \u201cEk dink ons op die tipping point<\/em> waar mense reg in eie hande wil neem,\u201d s\u00ea Smit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie mense by die kanaal is aggressief en arrogant \u2013 een het helder oordag by my ma se plek ingestap en die skootrekenaar gesteel.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit en Nel is albei oortuig daar is ook bendes bedrywig. Waar daar eers heimlik dwelms verkoop is, gebeur dit al meer openlik, s\u00ea hulle. \u201cHier\u2019s \u2019n ou wat kom en vir hulle die dwelms gee \u2013 hulle verkoop dit vir hom in die hoofstraat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nel s\u00ea, \u201chier is van hulle wat werk vir die Dixie Boys \u2013 hulle scan<\/em> die area al vir maande\u201d. Een van SSS se kli\u00ebnte het in die week voor daar ingebreek is \u2019n man op en af in die straat gesien loop. \u201cNet voor sy dogter by die huis gekom het, is hulle by die deur uit.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit se seun moes al aanskou hoe iemand reg voor hul eiendom se ingang op straat beroof word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns kan nie kom en gaan soos ons wil nie \u2013 ons is eintlik in huisarres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dit vat \u2019n mens se menslikheid weg \u2013 ek is iemand wat lief is vir mense, om uit te reik en met minderbevoorregte kinders te werk,\u201d s\u00ea Smit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nel s\u00ea \u201cdie realiteit is ons kry geen hulp nie. Wetstoepassing en almal kom maak dalk skoon, dan gaan hulle weer. Ek verstaan daar is nie plek nie \u2013 skuilings is vol en straatmense wil nie by re\u00ebls hou nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns moet re\u00ebl om skoon te maak rondom hulle. Hulle gebruik die kanaal vir enigiets \u2013 die mense in die hospitaal sien als raak. Mense kan nie slaap nie, want honde blaf heel nag, want daar\u2019s mense teen die Vibracrete muur. Jy kan nie vir hulle s\u00ea om te skuif nie, want \u2018ek het meer regte as wat jy het\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit en Nel is van mening dat meeste van die kanaal-bewoners huise of familie het om na terug te keer. Nel s\u00ea daar is al messe (soms selfgemaak) by van die mense op straat in die nagtelike ure afgeneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle breek by karre in, steel sonkragligte, watermeters . . . Ons weet dit is hulle, want \u2019n paar is al toegesluit vir diefstal. Maar m\u00f4re is hulle weer uit, dan\u2019s dit back to square one<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nog \u2019n inwoner, Grant Rumble, s\u00ea vir inwoners lyk dit of daar geen bereidwilligheid is van die Stad Kaapstad om op te tree nie. \u201cAs gemeenskap het ons \u2019n petisie opgestel om die onwettige strukture te verwyder, maar ons benodig hulp van die Stad om weer veilig in ons eie buurt te kan voel. Ons kinders kan nie buite speel nie en ons vroue kan nie in die area draf nie omdat hulle bang is hulle word seergemaak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rumble het in Junie aan stadsamptenare gemeld dat \u2019n brand by een van die skuilplekke uitgebreek het wat natuurlik bygedra het tot nabygele\u00eb inwoners se kommer oor hul veiligheid. Hy s\u00ea strukture wat teen grensmure opgerig word is telkemale deur inwoners aangemeld, maar die enigste reaksie is dat die versoeke op die Stad se stelsel net weer toegemaak word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk het empatie met haweloses, maar dit kan nie kom ten koste van belastingbetalende inwoners nie. Die verantwoordelikheid is in die Stad Kaapstad se hande.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tydens die pandemie het dinge vererger. Weens die noodtoestand kon die Stad Kaapstad nie straatmense van openbare grond verwyder nie. Om \u2019n hofbevel in terme van die Wet op die Voorkoming van Onwettige Uitsetting en Onregmatige Grondbesetting (Pie) te verkry blyk ook nie maklik gedaan as daar nie alternatiewe verblyf voorsien kan word nie (lees op bladsy 10 meer oor die onlangse hofuitspraak in die verband). Die Stad Kaapstad se Verordening op Strate, sit ook \u2019n proses uiteen alvorens \u2019n hofbevel ter sprake kom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smit voel meer kan gedoen word vir diegene op straat wat wel gehelp wil word, maar s\u00ea dis belangrik om te onderskei tussen waar \u2019n behoefte en wil is vir verandering en waar mense die leefstyl kies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOm R5 te gee by die robot sus net jou gewete, dit bring geen verandering teweeg. Gaan praat met daai kinders (wat by die robot bedel) \u2013 dit gaan als na ouers, vir dwelms.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n TygerBurger<\/em> het kommentaar uit verskeie oorde aangevra en sal volgende week hieroor berig. 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