Speaker, concerning what is happening in Manenberg, I would want to put it on record and say that the SA Police Service is stabilising that area. It started last year when the South African Police Service, SAPS, went to Lavender Hill, Hanover Park and Grassy Park to stabilise the areas. The cheap politicking was the unnecessary closing of the schools when nothing else was done, except having the SAPS doing its work there. The member does really not have her facts right.
Ten people died in those areas in this period, and 100 died in the same period in Nyanga. What the DA is doing is to racialise the death of people in this province. It must be made very clear that the violence here in this province affects not only the areas they have referred to, but also other areas, including Khayelitsha and Philippi.
What were discovered there is that the multidisciplinary approach we said must be taken is not happening because the local government is not delivering services. Some of the areas are very, very dark because there are no lights in those areas; as a result people are not able to defend themselves against criminals in those particular areas.
There has to be rehabilitation with regard to drugs. Not everything about drugs in this province has to do with policing and security. The provincial government must play its role - it has a role to play and it must do just that.
Regarding the issue of the SAPS Education Trust, I want to thank the member for the kind words she has spoken about this trust for police officers who died on duty, particularly their families.
I urge everybody in society to extend a hand to this trust, because it is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that the police are protected from attack as they are killed while protecting the society. Thank you.