CONCERNS RISE OVER AGGRESSIVE STREET CHILDREN IN SEA POINT

Residents demand urgent intervention

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

THE Sea Point City Improvement District (CID) has appealed to Mayor Geordin-Hill Lewis, Police Oversight and Community Safety, and Social Development to assist with ‘aggressive’ street children, with ‘untouchable’ attitudes.

They have requested the formation of a task team.

Activists suggest that there are 800 children roaming the streets of Cape Town, and according to the City’s census report of 2022, it said there were 6600 people sleeping on the streets.

Earlier this year, Sea Point CID confirmed that together with the Department of Social Development (DSD), they removed more than ten children from the streets within a week.

Yesterday, MEC for DSD, Jaco Londt said following interventions with the CID for the past year had seen a total of 39 children being removed off from the streets between April 2024 to March this year, one of whom was in contact with the law, and an additional 19 from April 1 to September 30 this year.

Jacques Weber, Chairman of the Sea Point CID, said the situation was dire as residents continued to live in fear.