The Westbury community is synonymous with shootings, crime and being in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
A crew named ‘Most Hated Crew’ (MHC) from Randburg decided to demonstrate that there is a future for the area without the staccato gunfire Westbury has become infamous for.
This is after the seven people who were shot with four of them dying in the greater Westbury, according to a report by Kate Lorimer, DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Community Safety.
After these incidents the Democratic Alliance (DA) called on both Gauteng Department of Community Safety MEC, Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane and Provincial Police Commissioner, lieutenant-general Deliwe de Lange to urgently intervene to ensure residents’ safety and to fight crime in Brixton, Langlaagte and Sophiatown.
Since then, the DA-led City of Johannesburg Coalition has initiated the recruitment of 1500 more Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department officers, increasing the force by 50 percent, to change the fact that our residents are in fear while criminals operate with impunity.
The K9 Narcotics Unit, which was established soon after coming into office, has successfully effected hundreds of arrests, seizing hundreds of kilograms of drugs.
Moving on to MHC, on September 25 the crew spray painted or rather, designed graffiti art on a wall in Kretzmar street, Westbury.
According to Jean Dubuffet on the website, Graffiti art has its origins in 1970s New York, when young people began to use spray paint and other materials to create images on buildings and on the sides of subway trains.
Such graffiti can range from bright graphic images (wildstyle) to the stylised monogram (tag).
The main aim of this art is to represent or express a certain feeling or movement. The art piece on the wall was inspired by the movie ‘The Matrix’.
According to a local, Rupert West, the art indicates that one cannot dodge bullets. “Guns are very dangerous and we pray for a gun-free zone,” he added.
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