Why we exist

Memeza intervenes by putting crime prevention processes in place, enabling community response models, building social cohesion,community resilience and economic empowerment opportunities, under pinned by research and information systems.

PILOT and IMPACT - COMMUNITY POLICING ALARM: The result of the Diepsloot pilot ran in 2014 where 600 vulnerable households were secured and linked to SAPS, culminated in September 2015 when the National Crime Statistics suggested that Diepsloot was the only township area in Gauteng with a 9% decrease in murder rate and 26% reduction in sexual violence offenses. 2300 Personal Alarm Distribution in Mashamplane - no accounts of rape, sexual assault or domestic-related assault has been reported. In Diepsloot Policing Precinct as a whole the following impact has been measured by SAPS, between the periods April to September 2016.

• Murder - 8.6% drop
• Rape - 16.2% drop
• Attempted murder
• 23.3% drop
• Culpable Homicide
• 7.7% drop

1. Crime Prevention Processes-For the first time, empowering communities with crime prevention and reactivation tools, to take ownership of their own, and their family's safety.
2. Enabling community response models-Strengthening communities impacted by SGBVF, violence and crime with the ability to easily broadcast the need for assistance to local support networks such as SAPS/CPF and community members, enabling citizen to citizen policing.
3. Building Social Cohesion and Community Resilience-Putting processes and interventions in place to make communities impenetrable by perpetrators and giving power to the people to self-police.
4. Economic Empowerment Opportunities-To create community upliftment opportunities for woman and youth.
5. Research and Information Systems-Understand the impact of social ills in communities, through research focused programmes, which results in fact-based interventions.
6. Awareness Campaigns-To highlight the negative impact of social ills, such as GBV, and make communities aware of the support structures available.

The Private Security industry mostly views townships, informal settlements and rural communities as non-paying and too risky for their business model.
Thus, these communities rely predominantly on public services and community based crime prevention and response structures to help protect themselves against SGBVF and Crime in general. Crime and SGBVF in these communities are escalating at an alarming rate.
Memeza intervenes by putting crime prevention processes in place, enabling community response models, building social cohesion,community resilience and economic empowerment opportunities, under pinned by research and information systems.