THE Joburg District police commissioner Major General Max Phasha was to initially receive a memorandum at Sarafina Local Park in Diepsloot after midday, but he was faced with a change of plans.
This was after the protestors felt disrespected and demanded that the memorandum be handed over at the police station and the police had to oblige.
The march headed to the police station and the memorandum was received at the gate by Commissioner Phasha.
However, before the protestors handed over the memorandum, they demanded all cops to leave the cop shop and be in the streets to fight crime and stop certifying documents.
The fuming residents said twelve people had been killed in the recent weeks, and the latest victim was on Thursday, 14 September.
Community leader Lefa Nkala read out the memorandum to the commissioner before signing.
Nkala read out a list of crimes that claimed lives that forced them to take to the streets.
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"Our people perish in the hands of criminals. We bury our loved ones on a weekly basis. In the past two weeks we experienced the bombing of three filling stations around our area, and in the same process a few people also lost their lives," he said.
He said a police officer was gunned down in a robbery that took place in one of the filling stations.
"A taxi owner became a victim of the same crime that is uncontrollable in our area," Nkala said.
Another community leader Loyiso Toyiya said a family lost three members at the same time after merciless criminals broke into a family home last week.
"Enough is enough. We can't live like this. We must take a stand and cry out to our government to intervene. This is too much comrades. We demand amaberete on a permanent basis," said Nkala.
Joburg District Police Commissioner Major General Max Phasha pledged to address the community's grievances.
