PAHS FOUNDATION PHASE RAISES R2 500 FOR FAMILY WHOSE HOUSE BURNT DOWN

CRIME is down in Kenton, the Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association (Kosra) security subcommittee was happy to report.

In their latest Inside Kenton update last week, Kosra security committee gave feedback on a strategy developed last year to reduce the number of housebreakings in the area.

They said housebreaking had dropped 40% between December 9 and January 9 compared to the same period the year before.

Members contributed to a fund to hire Hi-Tec security guards over the holiday season at a cost of R160000.

The guards were placed at the eight entrances to Kenton, with the addition of a mobile supervisor.

“The guards were rotated every two hours and this proved to be very effective,” Kosra’s security committee said in its report.

“They alerted the supervisor as to any individuals accessing Kenton and he then followed these people until they either left in apparent frustration or were apprehended and escorted out, ensuring they were unable to perpetrate any criminal activities.”

Routine patrols by a neighbourhood watch group continued and were very effective in retrieving stolen goods, the committee reported.

Heat-seeking binoculars proved invaluable, enabling the neighbourhood watch to locate people hiding in the bush and leading to their arrests by Hi-Tec and SAPS.

“Thank you to those who have contributed. Excellent results facilitated by your generosity!” the committee said.

In other statistics, crime for the December 2015 /January 2016 holiday period was down by 80% on the previous season, and of the eight break-ins that took place over the most recent holiday season there were four arrests, and stolen goods were retrieved from five of the break-ins.

Picture: ROB KNOWLES OVERCOME WITH GRATITUDE: Talk of the Town was a conduit for donations to a family whose house burnt down in Nemato several weeks ago. Port Alfred High School’s foundation phase raised an impressive R2470 for the family, which was handed to Matombi Nobebe and her husband Thobile Xhali on Monday. Nobebe said she was very grateful to PAHS and everyone else who had helped her family

Picture: JON HOUZET BUILDING A BRIGHTER FUTURE: Head of Port Alfred High School’s foundation phase, Charles Kantor, centre, led a fundraising drive at the school for a Nemato family whose house burnt down several weeks ago. Pupils enthusiastically raised money from family and friends, raising a total of R2 470. With Kantor are pupils, from left, Jada Coltman, Tshifhiwa Munyai, Tyde Venter and Lara-Jean Moller