KZN king’s plea for cross-border crime prevention is answered
The provincial MEC for finance has allocated R50m for cross-border crime fighting, as brazen thieves steal cars from police compounds
Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini will be relieved that his plea for the government to deal with cross-border crime did not fall on deaf ears. KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC Belinda Scott has given the provincial department of transport R50m for a cross-border crime-fighting initiative. The money‚ allocated by Scott during her budget speech on Tuesday‚ is earmarked for setting up a cross-border structure on the border of KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique. Brazen crime syndicates‚ mostly from Mozambique‚ have been terrorising communities in the border town of eManguzi where several vehicles were either stolen or hijacked last year. Some crime lords even targeted vehicles in police compounds‚ where their owners had kept them for safety. Last year‚ Zwelithini spoke out strongly about cross-border hijackings at his Enyokeni Palace during a meeting with traditional leaders‚ which was also attended by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. "People are forced at gunpoint to go and fetch their vehi...
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