Security on high alert

Municipal employees expected to be on duty

USING the experience of the riots of July 2021 and last year’s floods, Durban’s security fraternity, private and public, is on high alert should Monday’s shutdown turn violent.

Community organisations – from the Merewest Community Foundation in the south of the city to Durban North and Greenwood Park’s community police forums (CPFs) in the north – have mobilised in close liaison with the SAPS and the metro police.

Communities have stressed the importance of acting within the law, while the EFF, drivers of the protest, have denied inciting violence.

However, provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi yesterday warned that police “will be in combat mode”. Civilian bodies