Cities, Development & Armed Violence

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1 Cities, Development & Armed Violence Eldred de Klerk AFRICA Analysis Cape Town, South Africa

2 Getting around Cape Town can get you killed!?

3 Be that as it may, you still have to get around, no?

4 Public Transport Interchange

5 Attributes of Public Transport Public Service Public Value Publically Accountable Networked/seamless Extensive/reach Intelligent Safe Omnipresent Reliable Affordable Regular Environmentally Friendly Healthy/clean Standardized Responsive Differential/appropriate

6 Intelligent Public Transport

7 Transport options for getting to & from

8 Driver Conductor Owner Association City Council Law Enforcement Provincial Regulatory Entity (PRE) Other Motorists Worker Pedestrians Mother Scholar Who is on the minibus taxi?

9 The Indignity of Poor Public Transport Provision Causes: Apartheid Design Deregulation Economic Drivers (greed) Organized Crime Political Lethargy Absent Regulation Under or Selective Enforcement Response: Regulatory Framework Analysis IMTAC Infrastructure Development Inter & Multi Modal Law Enforcement Traffic Management Impact: Inhuman & Undignified Entrench Patriarch & Gender Divisions Fear & Uncertainty Entrench Apartheid Divisions & Legacy Entrench Class Divides Economic Alienation Exploitation of Labour Force Psycho social health Lessons: Build Institutional Capacity & Capability Regulation & Enforcement Safety & Compliance Joined up Government Multidisciplinary & Knowledge Intensive Political & SocialWill It is Possible

10 Sector Policing Community Based Generalist Constable 24 hour Service Shift schedule Policing requirements (effectively and efficiently) Officer shifts criminal investigations directed patrol proactive activities community relations Expanded officer role calls for service crime prevention enforcement activities Emphasis on front-line officer role not rank officer satisfaction officer performance Identification of police sectors Assignment of officers regular Ad hoc Planned Traditional: basis of geographical factors Emerging : basis of a combination of factors random rotational team approach Policing approach Information Management Staff development traditional :incident driven emerging : problem-solving Traditional : limited it information support Emerging : information driven Traditional : control and punishment centred Emerging : care, flexible, support and reward-orientated Training & task performance Education & life-long learning formalised system of internal communication Community involvement Public relations & closed system Community relations & interactive Managing the risks & threats involved in catching the taxi

11 Attributes of Public Transport Multimodal Intermodal Local Governed Regulated Compliant Enforcement Governance Design Planning Foresight Learning Architecture Infrastructure Smart

12 Taxi driver appeals bail decision Humphreys was found guilty on Monday of murdering 10 school children when his minibus was hit by a train at a level crossing in Blackheath outside Cape Town on August 25 last year. Independent Newspapers: December Taxi owners, miffed at BRT, threaten strike MARCH 9, 2011, Publication: The New Age Author: Rusana Philander Taxi violence flares as rivals clash December at 11:09am By Karabo Seanego From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa ( ) by Jackie Dugard Violence and Transition Series, Vol. 4, May Woman raped while waiting for taxi News 24 November Taxi rank assault takes SA backwards There s no room for such barbaric acts in our country We urge the leadership of the taxi industry to act against the alleged perpetrators as they seek to reverse the gains made to restore the confidence of the people in the industry. South Africa News Two taxi accidents in Limpopo have left 20 people injured. Taxi drivers held for assaulting cop September at 10:03am

13 Proudly shook their bottoms Women and several men wore miniskirts for the march, and proudly shook their bottoms for the assembled news cameras.

14 Widespread taxi violence hits Cape Town, Somali shops looted Peter Luhanga Tyres burnt in the streets and random gun shots could be heard in Cape Town s Du Noon township on Wednesday night as taxi violence spilled over into the looting of Somali owned shops. The Du Noon looting came after the first day of a three day taxi strike in Cape Town, which began on Wednesday. Taxi operators are protesting against the planned implementation ofa Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT), which will see dedicated bus lanes on City roads. There was widespread stoning of cars and buses by taxi operators on the first day of the strike. Apart from Du Noon, other hotspots were Khayelitsha and Nyanga, where there were reports of a heavy police presence on Wednesday night. The Cape Argus newspaper reported on Thursday that 47 Golden Arrow buses had been stoned and 33 people injured across Cape Town. In Du Noon, police confirmed that 10 shops were looted on Wednesday night, but denied that the incidents were linked to xenophobia. West Cape News TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21ST 2012

15 The times they are a changing a war zone no more?

16 Getting around in Cape Town & Johannesburg

17 Taxi statistics People using Taxi service each 14 million day Officially registered minibus taxis 120,000 Average taxis per owner 2 Avg monthly kilometers di driven by 8,000 a taxi Avg number of passengers transported monthly per vehicle Avg time spent daily in a taxi by a passenger 3,161 Avg number of trips per 2.3 passenger per day Data as of 2006 [1] 65 min Boudreaux, Karol, "Taxing Alternatives: Poverty Alleviation and the South African Taxi/Minibus Industry", Mercatus Policy Series 3

18 Taxi related violence death toll[5] Number of deaths Number of injuries Dugard, Jackie (May, 2001), "From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa ( )", Violence and Transition Series 4

19 Filling the gap? crime, development, environment Getting around Cape Town can get you killed!?

20 Many thanks to: ICPC & all who made this conference possible.