Safety

Safety

To help build safe and secure communities, everyone has to say no to crime. This includes thinking about the small laws people are tempted to commit, like speeding and littering, as well as how to reduce corruption and violent crime.

IDEAS FOR ACTION (from www.forgood.co.za)

• It starts with you: be honest as an individual even in small things. Keep the law - if we do this we will change the culture of crime in our country
• Report all criminal activity to SAPS Crime Stop Hotline 08600 10111 or SMS your anonymous tip-off to the Primedia CrimeLine on 32211 (or go on their website to send an anonymous email – www.crimeline.co.za and click on their “Tip Off” menu option)
• Public property belongs to all of us. Look after public property such as bus shelters, streetlights and playground equipment, in your local area. It will help you to feel positive about your neighbourhood and it helps to reduce crime.
• See www.yoursouthafrica.co.za for the City Press campaign.Get to know your neighbours. This will allow you to work together to make your neighbourhood a safer place.
• Report illegal liquor outlets in your area to the authorities and follow up until they are closed down. Don’t buy from them. Alcohol and violence are linked.
• Decide that you will not be a person who benefits from crime in any way. Don’t buy stolen goods, don’t take money that you know comes from crime (even if it does feed your family), and don’t take money from drug lords for community projects.
• Join your local Neighbourhood Watch or Community Policing Forum, and offer to do something with or for the group.
• Campaign the local council for proper street lighting.
• Clean up overgrown or unsafe spots or places where people can hide - commit to keeping them clean.
• Report on “drug corners”, and follow up until the authorities deal with them.
• Take a stand as a family against violent movies, video games and toys such as guns. Teach your children from young that violence does not solve problems - it creates them.

 

RESOURCES

Adapt
Adapt is working in Alexandra, Joburg, to create a society free from gender-based violence, and provides counselling and support for survivors and perpetrators of gender-based violence, as well as running awareness and training programmes in the local community.
Tel: 011 885 3305
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Website: www.adapt.org.za

Childline
Childline provides counselling services to any South African child who needs support, guidance or a listening ear.
Toll-free: 0800 055 555
Website: www.childlinesa.org.za

Childsafe – Child Accident Prevention Foundation of SA
Childsafe raises awareness and serves as a resource about childhood safety and injury prevention, and offers safety tips and brochures on its website.
Tel: 021 685 5208
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Website: www.childsafe.org.za

Gun Free South Africa
Gun Free SA aim to reduce the number of firearms in South Africa to help build a safe and secure nation by offering various programmes, including assisting schools to create gun-free zones.
Tel:011 403 4590
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Website: www.gfsa.org.za

Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative
Khulisa works holistically at all levels of the crime cycle - preventing crime, diverting youth from the criminal justice system, providing alternatives to imprisonment, fostering personal transformation for those who are in prison, and assisting with their transition back to society. Khulisa helps families and communities support victims who need healing and offenders who want to make amends.
Tel: 011 788 8237
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Website: www.khulisaservices.co.za

LifeLine
LifeLine is a well established organisation with highly trained, disciplined lay counsellors who volunteer around the clock, and it provides emotional wellness to help you face any personal distress or life crises you might be struggling with.
Tel: 0861 322 322
Website: www.lifeline.org.za

NICRO – National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders
NICRO is turning lives around by presenting life skills programmes to youth at risk and former offenders countrywide to achieve successful reintegration and reduce crime. Please assist us! Contact NICRO for a safe South Africa and donate to the solution-based programmes and break the cycle of crime.
Tel: 021 462 0017
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Website: www.nicro.org.za

Stop Crime Say Hello
Stop Crime Say Hello encourages all South Africans to engage with each other with positive words and actions, which will assist to reduce crime through creating and spreading an atmosphere of dignity and respect in our country.
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Website: www.scsh.co.za

Stop Gender Violence Helpline
The Stop Gender Violence Helpline provides anonymous, confidential, free and accessible telephonic counselling, education and referrals in all 11 official languages - to survivors, witnesses and perpetrators of gender-based violence.
Toll-free: 0800 150 150
Website: www.lifeline.org.za

Volunteer Child Network
This user-friendly web database aims to assist interested volunteers to match their individual skills and preferences to appropriate organisations involved in various activities related to the prevention of child abuse and to minimising the negative impact of child abuse on victims.
Website:www.volunteerchildnetwork.org.za