Residents were recently notified by the municipality that these passageways will no longer be accessible to the public, with gates installed to manage foot traffic.
South Africans are accustomed to seeing politics in national terms, and foreign policy particularly in those terms. Yet what Cape Town is doing is quite firmly within the mainstream of modern politics.
The crime fighting and prevention efforts of 46 neighbourhood watches within the Stellenbosch municipal boundaries were honoured at a special appreciation ceremony in the Stellenbosch Town Hall last Wednesday (31 August).