By Obakeng Maje
Pampierstad- The community of Pampierstad gathered together to experience the birth of a newly-formed National Anti-Crime and Community Development Forum near Mountainview, Pampierstad.

A newly formed community forum was formed in response to community outcry where crime, poverty, unemployment, bad condition of roads and abandoned houses issues were under discussion.

According to the founder Tlhopego Sele, a small technical team representing the community was formed before to deal with crime prevention in promoting safety and precautionary measures among citizens.

“We had a team that was operating as volunteers, but we had conflicts with police and we could not agree on other matters. Crime is so rife in the area and we managed to identify what might lead to that. We have high rate of unemployment,rape, murder and high rate of alcohol consumption ” Sele said.

Sele said they launched Anti-crime and Community Development Forum so that they can deal with burning issues like unemployment.

“We believe that unemployment creates poverty and that lead to committing crime. If more people are working, they will diverge from crime. So we will try to bring more projects and ascertain that the majority of beneficiaries really do come from local community” he said.

Many stakeholders graced the event like Sanco, Saps and they were given more information about Community Policing Forum(CPF). Sele said there are more abandoned houses that attract vagrants and are used as crime nests.

He also said bad condition their roads are in, also does not augur well because when is rainy, roads are slippery and become no-go area. Police could not respond swiftly because of bad roads.

He said developing the economy, Pampierstad will be a better place and eventually a crime free area.-TDN
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