{"id":49115,"date":"2023-07-14T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/inwoners-ruk-op-oor-geweld-in-villiersdorp-20230712-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T04:01:06","slug":"inwoners-ruk-op-oor-geweld-in-villiersdorp-20230712-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/inwoners-ruk-op-oor-geweld-in-villiersdorp-20230712-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inwoners ruk op oor geweld in Villiersdorp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Inwoners van Villiersdorp is keelvol vir misdaad. Dit was die boodskap onlangs toe \u2019n groep onder leiding van \u2019n plaaslike burgerregteorgani- sasie in die dorp na die plaaslike polisiekantoor opgeruk het om die toename in misdaad te pak.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Weldon Wells, voorsitter van di\u00e9 organisasie, het ges\u00ea \u2019n memorandum is aan die stasiebevelvoerder oorhandig, waarin <\/a>
\n nege moorde van die begin van die jaar asook drie verkragtings in die tydperk genoem word.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Wells het ges\u00ea die Villiersdorp-polisie het \u2019n groot uitdaging omdat slegs vier speurders daar werk, wat <\/a>
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\n volgens hom te min is vir die aantal inwoners, wat tans die 60 000-kerf oorskry.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Kapt. Ryan Arends, die waarnemende stasiebevelvoerder van die Villiersdorp-polisie, het egter ges\u00ea ses speurders werk by die polisiekantoor.<\/p>\n

\n Wells het ges\u00ea inwoners is ook bekommerd oor die toename van boende-howe wat plaasvind en waarskynlik verantwoordelik is vir die huidige vlaag moorde in en om Villiersdorp. <\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Arends het beklemtoon boendoe-howe is aan die toeneem. Hy het ges\u00ea boendoe-howe is \u2019n aksie wat toegepas word wanneer \u2019n groep mense eie reg gebruik teen misdaadverdagtes in plaas daarvan dat die klagtes by die polisie aangemeld word.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Hierdie gedrag lei dikwels tot die moord van die verdagte. <\/a>
\n Die vermoorde se lyk word dan in \u2019n afgele\u00eb veld gelos, waar voetgangers of motoriste dit gewaar en die polisie in kennis stel, wat dan \u2019n moordsaak moet open.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Arends het verduidelik di\u00e9 groep mense wat die boendehowe beheer, is klaarblyklik van die Sotho-kultuur wat in informele nedersettings in en om Villiersdorp bly.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Volgens hom hou vier van die nege moorde met boende-howe verband, terwyl twee weens taxi-geweld is en die ander drie moorde as gevolg van alkoholmisbruik is.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Arends het verduidelik tot dusver is net een inhegtenisneming in verband met hierdie moorde gemaak.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Die memorandum wat by die polisie ingedien is, sal nou deur die polisie se distrikskantoor in Hermanus ondersoek word.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Volgens Wells is die doel van die Civil Action Movement om die Theewaterskloof-munisipaliteit en plaaslike polisiekantoor verantwoordelik te hou vir goeie dienslewering deur projekte aktief te dryf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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