Mahikeng- Communities need to unite and cooperate with police to reclaim their streets and neighbourhoods from criminals, the leadership of Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship (MMF) told residents of Lonely Park, Signal Hill and Molelwane villages near Mahikeng on Thursday afternoon.

In addressing residents at the prayer and cleansing ceremony, Chairperson of MMF (an interdenominational Pastors Fellowship) Apostle Zandisele Reginald Mpame emphasised the importance of resuscitating crime prevention structures to support effective policing in the area.
The ceremony was held at the spot where the body of an unidentified elderly woman was discovered without a head on Saturday morning.

The body of a 27-year- old Serame Maruping from Lonely Park who was buried on Sunday after her body was also found at the same spot with her panties shoved down her throat. Police are also investigating the murder of 25- year- old Kgomotso Domingo, whose body was discovered with a crashed head in Lonely Park. The mother of three children aged nine,seven and three was also buried the past weekend on Saturday.“The spate of killings, rape incidents, house robberies, and gangsterism that the community has experienced in recent weeks call for united action and partnership in the roll out of moral regeneration programmes to intensify the fight against the scourge of sexual violence and protection of women, children and the elderly,” Apostle Mpame said.

He called on the community to remain calm and come forth with information that might assist police in their investigations to bring perpetrators that are terrorising the community to book.  
A 42-year-old single mother of three who was a victim of house robbery and attempted rape said that some of the perpetrators are known to the community and though cases against them were opened, the community is worried that they are still roaming the streets.

Ward Councillor Paulos Nkosi echoed the call for unity, called on parents to exercise responsible parenting and to adopt the adage “every child is my child.”

Nkosi was supported in this call by a sixty-two year old man who is a neighbour to one of the victims who attributed the high level of crime in the area to satanism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse among the youth.
-TDN
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