STATEMENT BY PATRICIA DE LILLE, FORMER EXECUTIVE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN, LEADER OF THE GOOD MOVEMENT
At the height of the country’s holiday season when families are enjoying time together and enjoying our beautiful natural amenities, like beaches, it is shocking to learn that a private security company has been permitted to police our magnificent Camps Bay and Clifton Beaches.
Public amenities have no closing times. We have long passed the days of curfews and restricted movement. There is no lawful or rational basis for this security company to “shutdown” our beaches at 8pm or at all.
This conduct tramples on our hard-won constitutional rights and anyone who was forced to leave the beach should lay criminal charges with the police.
I’m appalled by the lack of leadership and accountability from Cape Town’s political leadership. They are absent.
The reports we are receiving suggest that PPA, the security company, was conducting law enforcement with the tacit approval of the City’s Metro Police.