T Mhlahlo: Federation of International Football Association World Cup
Safety and Security Summit

Coega Village, Port Elizabeth
2 November 2007

Our interaction in the past two days has revealed that when we work together
as various organisations within the safety and security sector, we can emerge
with lasting solutions in our challenge of fighting crime in this country.

I would like to express my gratitude to all the presenters and delegates for
such a wonderful and fruitful session, which exposed us to new ideas that can
assist us to ensure that we present the people of South Africa and the whole
world with a crime-free tournament.

I would like to further thank the German delegation for such a profound
input, which gives us more ideas on how to improve our strategies in order to
meet the world-class standards, including technical details from your own
experiences.

Clearly, there is a lot of work that still needs to be done in order to
realise this objectives, which we have set for ourselves and our strength will
largely rely on our unity and ability to work together as a contingent of law
enforcement agencies together with the local sphere of government.

It has become evident that, as we move forward, we need to invite more role
players to our fold, including:

1. Home Affairs to lead us on issues of immigration control and strategic
approaches.
2. Department of Telecommunications to advice on the best possible approaches
of using the Information and Communication Technology to enhance our security
systems.
3. Department of Foreign Affairs to advice on how best can we deal with
international visitors without compromising the integrity of South Africa in
the eyes of the world.
4. Department of Local Government to present a strategy for dealing with
disaster management. This strategy should be mass-based to ensure that our
communities play a vital role in the prevention of any disaster in 2010.
5. Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the National
Prosecuting Authority must come up with the best possible strategies of
fast-tracking cases related to 2010 Federation of International Football
Association (Fifa) World Cup visitors drawing experience from the Wild Coast
Tourism Related Cases Fast-Tracked System. The provincial Justice, Crime
prevention and Security (JCPS) Cluster needs to closely monitor the development
and implementation of that Fast-Tracked Case Management System. Court No.21 in
the Port Elizabeth New Law Court must be strengthened to pilot our work towards
the 2010 Project.

District co-ordination:

Judging from the inputs that have been presented here, there is a dire need
for us to strengthen the 2010 district forums in order to ensure that our
strategies cascade to that most important level of our government.

These forums should enjoy the support of our Community Police Forums and
Community Safety Forums to ensure that we all move towards a common direction.
We need to further extend our hand to local municipalities such as King Sabata
Dalindyebo, which I think still needs greater assistance in order to become a
base camp that meets the Fifa standards, both in terms of its transport
infrastructure and safety requirements.

Spreading the 2010 fever:

Fifa approach is more focussed on the host cities and as South Africans, we
have a duty to ensure that we expose all parts of our country to the benefits
that come with this tournament.

In fact, host cities alone cannot be able to cover all the interests of our
international visitors. We need to find ways and means of investing on the
security systems for areas that support these cities, especially those with
tourism potential, including the Addo Elephant Park, Alicedale, the Langkloof,
Grahamstown, Port Alfred, the Wild Coast etc.

I want to remind delegates that in the Eastern Cape, we will prepare for
2010 together with Grahamstown Arts Festival in July 2010. There will be South
African Golf Open in Humewood in December same year.

Skills development:

The issue of skills development remains critical and I would like to concur
with a suggestion of engaging institutions of higher learning for the training
of our people, especially the youth, on how to communicate in foreign languages
as a strategy to promote safety and security during the tournament. As part of
School Safety Project, we will have to find a way of briefing high schools
about 2010 so that we can communicate with learners across the province.

Soccer fans control:

The sub-committee on safety and security needs to urgently develop a
strategy to deal with the movement of people and vehicles around the stadiums
and fan parks during major sport events. As the province, we have not yet
mastered a way of dealing with the crowds when they enter and leave the
stadiums after major sport events.

I must admit that we have improved in that area in the recent Vodacom
Challenge edition, which featured Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. We need to
use that match as our yardstick and continue to improve on that as we move
forward to another edition of the Vodacom Challenge next year, which will
feature the same teams.

The same approach should apply in the upcoming Metro FM awards to be held in
this city later this month, because this provides an opportunity for a joint
operation when dealing with public safety. This means that members of the South
African Police Service (SAPS), provincial traffic officers and municipal
traffic officers should continue to strengthen their collaboration.

Ports control:

Yesterday, the issue of improving security in our ports was partly raised
and I think I need to inform this meeting that the Eastern Cape province is now
a member of the National Port Security Audit Team.

As from February 2008, we will start auditing the safety and security
aspects of our provincial ports and our starting point will be the Port of East
London.

As the province, we intend to introduce a Maritime Passenger Transport
Strategy, especially now that we are preparing for 2010 Fifa World Cup. We
would like to see our people commuting between East London and the Nelson
Mandela Bay by sea to come and watch the games.

When all the safety requirements are complied with, we believe that the sea
can be a safest mode of transport than any other and contribute in our tourism
development strategy, which is a cornerstone of our Provincial Growth and
Development Plan.

We have already donated boats worth more than R500 000 to the Port St Johns
Municipality to improve the area's emergency capacity and we intend to invest
more money on other parts of the wild coast region to improve safety and
security in that internationally renowned tourist destination.

In conclusion, I would like to congratulate everybody for this wonderful
contribution and hope that we will continue to work together to ensure that we
win the battle against crime.

I am convinced that, as the Eastern Cape, we are ready and would like to
assure all the sceptics that come 2010, our province will be crime-free.

I thank you.

Issued by: Safety, Liaison, Roads and Transport, Eastern Cape Provincial
Government
2 November 2007

Nkosi