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To: Belville Magistrates Court
Stop blood profits: BOYCOTT Obs & Ottery Spur
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Dear Belville Magistrates Court
We can no longer let criminals rule our communities. Irshaad Laher and those who enable the gangs on the Cape Flats are destroying the lives of countless families who live in fear and pain of the war that rages around them.
We call on you to strengthen the arm of the community in fighting against the brutal act of violence and the guns that are destroying our community. This petition and boycott of the Observatory and Ottery Spurs are a testament to the will of the people to fight the profits that govern the motives of the businessmen and gangs.
We need the courts, in partnership with the people of Cape Town, to fight back against this trend. We need harsher sentences for those who are crippling our communities with profits! As the court is the highest authority to defend the rights of the people, we call on you, the magistrate on this case, to take into consideration the effect of his selfish actions on thousands of families in the Cape Flats. As a magistrate, you have the power to give voice to the suffering of those who have lost their voices.
We will not stop fighting for our safety and our families. We ask you to fight with us.
"ONS GAAN DIKHOU TOT HULLE OPHOU!"
We can no longer let criminals rule our communities. Irshaad Laher and those who enable the gangs on the Cape Flats are destroying the lives of countless families who live in fear and pain of the war that rages around them.
We call on you to strengthen the arm of the community in fighting against the brutal act of violence and the guns that are destroying our community. This petition and boycott of the Observatory and Ottery Spurs are a testament to the will of the people to fight the profits that govern the motives of the businessmen and gangs.
We need the courts, in partnership with the people of Cape Town, to fight back against this trend. We need harsher sentences for those who are crippling our communities with profits! As the court is the highest authority to defend the rights of the people, we call on you, the magistrate on this case, to take into consideration the effect of his selfish actions on thousands of families in the Cape Flats. As a magistrate, you have the power to give voice to the suffering of those who have lost their voices.
We will not stop fighting for our safety and our families. We ask you to fight with us.
"ONS GAAN DIKHOU TOT HULLE OPHOU!"
Why is this important?
Irshaad Laher, the owner of the Halaal Spur in Observatory (Eagle Eye Spur) and Ottery (Twin Peak Spur) as well as the Nando's in Athlone, has been arrested last week and is accused of supplying firearms to gangs like the Americans, Mongrels and Hard Livings. He has been granted bail of R100 000, and is walking the streets freely, continuing to make money off the blood of the innocent people dying daily on the Cape Flats in the midst of rampant gang violence.
We call on a complete BOYCOTT of the Observatory and Ottery Spur, as well as the Nando's in Athlone. We can use the power of our pockets to make him see the pain of so many families who have been destroyed by the ruthless profit-making of those who enable the gangs.
In the Cape Town, 18% of murders are gang related. And yet the current conviction rate for gang violence is 2%. In Manenberg alone, in the space of a month in April, May there were 30 gang murders.
The Institute of Security Studies (ISS), found that gangsterism in the Western Cape has become increasingly ruthless and business orientated. We need the courts, in partnership with the people of Cape Town, to fight back against this trend. We need harsher sentences for those who are crippling our communities with profits!
Roegschanda Pascoe, a leader in the Manenberg Safety Forum, said, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, parents are losing their children, they can't get closure, they must just walk around with their pain."
We can no longer let criminals rule our communities - help us to send a message to the Bellville Magistrates Court, and to Irshaad and others like him, that we will not stop fighting for our safety and our families. "ONS GAAN DIKHOU TOT JULLE OPHOU!"
"There are still people here with breath in our lungs: hope is not gone."
We call on a complete BOYCOTT of the Observatory and Ottery Spur, as well as the Nando's in Athlone. We can use the power of our pockets to make him see the pain of so many families who have been destroyed by the ruthless profit-making of those who enable the gangs.
In the Cape Town, 18% of murders are gang related. And yet the current conviction rate for gang violence is 2%. In Manenberg alone, in the space of a month in April, May there were 30 gang murders.
The Institute of Security Studies (ISS), found that gangsterism in the Western Cape has become increasingly ruthless and business orientated. We need the courts, in partnership with the people of Cape Town, to fight back against this trend. We need harsher sentences for those who are crippling our communities with profits!
Roegschanda Pascoe, a leader in the Manenberg Safety Forum, said, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, parents are losing their children, they can't get closure, they must just walk around with their pain."
We can no longer let criminals rule our communities - help us to send a message to the Bellville Magistrates Court, and to Irshaad and others like him, that we will not stop fighting for our safety and our families. "ONS GAAN DIKHOU TOT JULLE OPHOU!"
"There are still people here with breath in our lungs: hope is not gone."
How it will be delivered
We will deliver this petition to the Bellville Magistrates Court on the 22nd of July, when Irshaad Laher appears again before the court.