Manenberg

And every day in October, a group of Cape Town residents have been walking up to Blockhouse, King's Blockhouse, just under Devil's Peak.

And it is to raise funds for survivors of gender-based violence, specifically living at the Sarki Batman Center in Manenberg.

So, you know, we attended the last walk that they had on Saturday.

and it was an amazing um event our reporters that went said you know they got to speak to some of the survivors they got to speak to just capetonians that joined the walk that said you know we want to support the initiative but also this is an opportunity for us to walk in a group and feel safe walking up the mountain So far, the initiative has raised about, I think, about half a million rand.

And Across the 17 high-crime precincts that have been identified by SAPS and been reported upon, the results were largely mixed, right? And in the report, we look at five police precincts.

That is largely Mitchell's Plain, that is Mitchell's Plain, Steenburg, Bishop Lavers, Manenberg, and Philippi.

And, you know, like I said, these reflect mixed statistics.

So in Philippi, for example, murders actually increased from 4 in March to 11 in June, and they were broadly stable in Bishop Levis and Manenberg, for example, and Mitchelsplein and Steenburg actually experienced a decline in violence.

Now, it's important to realize that some declines actually began before the deployment, and therefore the declines during Operation Prosper cannot necessarily be attributed to military intervention.

There must be some limits to using the military.