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In recent months, several bodies have been discovered in the bushes along the coastal road between Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Strandfontein.
Baden Powell Drive between Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Image: Google Maps
CAPE TOWN – Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato has expressed concern about the continued dumping of bodies along Baden Powell Drive.
In recent months, several bodies have been discovered in the bushes along the coastal road between Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Strandfontein.
Plato said that he had requested that the SAPS properly investigate the incidents.
Western Cape Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz said last week that he planned to request a report from the provincial police commissioner to find out what the police plan was to address this pattern.
The mayor said he had asked city officials to come up with a proposal to improve lighting along the 25-kilometer stretch of Baden Powell Drive.
“We make regular efforts to replace and increase the number of streetlights, particularly in hot spots, but we have had to deal with recurring cable theft.”
They are also studying the possibility of installing CCTV cameras in the most problematic sections.
“We hope to install high mast lighting as a durable deterrent and are evaluating the feasibility of this.”
Since March, the bodies of at least seven murder victims have been found dumped in bushes along Baden Powell Drive.
In the latest incident last week, Khayelitsha police found the body of a woman believed to be in her early twenties. They had shot him in the head.
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