Activist challenges Cape Town’s smash-and-grab strategy in Elsies River

An Elsies River activist is calling for closer cooperation between the City of Cape Town and neighbourhood watches to prevent smash-and-grab attacks. His appeal follows Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s claim that incidents along a targeted section of Van Riebeeck Road had fallen from 96 to zero, a figure the City says does not apply to the whole of Elsies River.