Khayelitsha inquiry continues
The Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into alleged police inefficiency in the area is expected to continue on Friday.
The commission heard on Thursday that the Cape Town township needed two more police stations.
Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF) chairman Ndithini Thyido said a police station in Makaza and another in Site C needed to be built.
There were currently three police stations serving a population of close to 500,000.
Thyido disagreed with complainant organisation, the Social Justice Coalition, that an apparent increase in vigilante killings was evidence of police inefficiency in the area.
Thabani Masuku, for the police, asked Thyido whether he believed there was a breakdown in trust between residents and the police.
He said no, and that the problem did not lie mainly with police, but with the city.
He said the township needed amenities including toilets and adequate street lighting.
The KDF was tasked with co-ordinating and monitoring development in Khayelitsha.
The inquiry, headed by retired Constitutional Court judge Kate O'Regan, and advocate Vusi Pikoli, was set up by Western Cape premier Helen Zille after residents lodged complaints about police inefficiency, which was the apparent cause of a spate of mob justice killings in the area.
-Sapa