Bambanani Against Crime - A Safer Home for All this Festive Season

OBJECTIVE:

Bambanani Against Crime aims to ensure a safer festive season this 2004/2005 by increasing police visibility and accessibility at busy places, including beaches, trains and shopping centres.

START:

27 November 2004

END:

31 January 2005

STATUS:

Underway

DESCRIPTION:

A Safer Home for All on our Roads

A Safer Home for All on our Beaches

A Safer Home for All on our Trains

A Safer Home for All our Women and Children

A Safer Home for All in our Communities

In the 2004/2005 festive season, the police and other law enforcement agencies together with community volunteers and neighbourhood watch members will participate in the Safer Season Campaign to ensure that citizens and visitors enjoy a peaceful and secure Christmas and New Year.

Bambanani Against Crime 2003/2004

Last year's safer festive season campaign resulted in the safest holiday season in the Western Cape in a decade.

Compared to the same season the previous year:

Murders decreased by 34%
Attempted murder decreased by 31%
Rape decreased by 12%

The campaign is targeting:

communities - by deploying security officers in high-risk residential areas and imposing a strict curfew on shebeens
beaches - by enforcing a ban on alcohol and providing extra security on beaches and organising entertainment
trains - by increasing security, including regular searches and more protection for commuters
roads - by targeting driving under the influence of alcohol, road blocks and special courts on the N1 and N2.
shopping malls, youth and community activities - by increased security.

"All our law enforcement agencies, led by the South African Police Services, together with our municipal police, local law enforcement and traffic officers in partnership with our community structures such as CPFs and Neighbourhood Watches will be on full alert this festive season"

Minister Leonard Ramatlakane, Western Cape Minister for Community Safety

Areas that are specifically being targeted include:

the Cape Flats
the Boland
the Southern Cape.

Bambanani (a xhosa word meaning stand together/unite) is designed to unite all people and partners against crime. Bambanani enhances relations between the police and the communities and gets people to embrace their role in crime prevention.