Municipal Law Enforcement and Parking Fines

CorroboratedEditor-approved CLM-1024 · 24 August 2021 · Stellenbosch Municipality

After the SPS contract expired, the municipality ran a trial parking system managed by law enforcement officers and parking attendants appointed by the municipality, according to Council minutes of 24 Aug 2021 as cited by MatieMedia.

Source: Stellenbosch Municipality implements new trial parking system (MatieMedia / SMF) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — MatieMedia 26 Oct 2021, photo caption citing Council minutes of 24 Aug 2021

Counter-evidence: The Council minutes are not among the records cited for this claim; the municipal website's notice for that collection reads 'Documents are being restored'.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1030 · 22 October 2020 · Stellenbosch Municipality

The 2021 revised draft parking by-law report stated: 'The recent increase in demand for parking, and related increases in revenue, particularly for parking in the Central Business District (CBD) areas, has necessitated revisions'; it added that additional staff for operational management of parking or of a parking service provider may be required.

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Item 11.5.6 executive summary and para 6.5

Counter-evidence: Revenue amounts are not stated. The text is taken from a third-party copy of the agenda (fsmountain.org) because the municipal website's notice for that collection reads 'Documents are being restored'.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown CLM-1037 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Traffic fines written off as irrecoverable were R102 206 318 in 2024/25, R101 264 460 in 2023/24 and R82 979 503 in 2022/23; the municipality explains the write-offs by an NPA directive cancelling fines not converted to a summons within 18 months under the Criminal Procedure Act.

Sources: Stellenbosch Municipality Audited Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details; Stellenbosch Municipality Audited Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — AFS 2024/25 note 43, PDF p.120 and budget-comparison explanation, PDF p.14; AFS 2023/24 note 43, PDF p.112

Counter-evidence: AFS does not split parking fines from other municipal traffic fines. Write-offs relate to fines issued in earlier years, so they cannot be set directly against same-year revenue.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown CLM-1038 · 30 June 2025 · Stellenbosch Municipality

At 30 June 2025 gross traffic-fine receivables were R261 099 733 (R233 078 454 a year earlier) against an impairment allowance of R208 198 318 (R180 782 289), leaving R52 901 415 (R52 296 165) carried as recoverable; impairment is set from the ratio of receipts to the value of fines issued.

Source: Stellenbosch Municipality Audited Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — AFS 2024/25 note 6 ageing, PDF p.75; statutory receivables, PDF p.76; note 6.1.2 impairment reconciliation, PDF p.77; impairment basis ('value of fines issued in comparison to the receipts generated'), note 6 (statutory receivables), PDF p.79

Counter-evidence: The AFS does not publish a collection rate. Net/gross (about 20% in 2025, 22% in 2024) is the carried share, calculated from the source figures, not a measured payment rate; parking fines are not separated.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown CLM-1039 · Stellenbosch Municipality

The municipality outsources traffic-fine administration: 'Traffic Fines Management' contracted services cost R14 785 281 in 2024/25, R13 065 594 in 2023/24 and R9 646 176 in 2022/23, and agent TMT collects traffic fines and pays the money over to the municipality.

Sources: Stellenbosch Municipality Audited Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details; Stellenbosch Municipality Audited Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — AFS 2024/25 note 41 contracted services, PDF p.120, and note on agents, PDF p.122; AFS 2023/24 note 41, PDF p.111

Counter-evidence: Contract value, term and fee rate for TMT not disclosed in the AFS.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1040 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Traffic Services issued 34 400, 43 504 and 55 506 section 56 notices and 28 062, 29 867 and 35 823 section 341 notices in 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24, and 357 144, 372 420 and 353 279 camera speeding fines; the municipality says s341 notices are used, for example, for parking offences.

Source: Annual Report 2023/24 with Annual Report Oversight Report 2023/24 (final, as submitted to National Treasury) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Annual Report 2023/24 Table 163 'Service Data for Traffic Services', PDF p.254; s341 explanation in Oversight Report MPAC answers, PDF p.35

Counter-evidence: s341 counts include all non-parking absent-driver offences; no parking-only count is published.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1041 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Law Enforcement fines issued (s56 and s341) fell from 5 196 in 2022/23 to 2 078 in 2023/24. The municipality told MPAC the 2022/23 fines were issued while it was 'supported by POCS in 22/23 with additional staff', that those contracts were not renewed in 2023/24, and that the staff reduction caused the drop.

Source: Annual Report 2023/24 with Annual Report Oversight Report 2023/24 (final, as submitted to National Treasury) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Annual Report 2023/24 s3.17 Table 162, PDF p.252; Oversight Report MPAC question on Table 165, PDF p.35

Counter-evidence: Does not say whether these were parking fines or how many POCS-funded officers there were; link to the 61 temporary officers of 2021 is not stated.

Official response: Protection Services (Traffic and Law Enforcement) answer to MPAC.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1057 · 2 June 2023 · Western Cape Department of Mobility; Stellenbosch Municipality

In a reply to Western Cape Provincial Parliament Question 8 dated 2 June 2023, answered by Hon Ricardo Mackenzie (Mobility), the province reported that Stellenbosch Municipality had an approved establishment of 50 traffic officers, of whom 20 posts were filled (30 vacancies), and said that where there are vacancies "service delivery is negatively affected and not all areas are serviced" and that this "creates additional pressure on Provincial Traffic".

Source: WCPP question 8 (Hon Lulama Mvimbi) to the Minister of Mobility (answered by Hon Ricardo Mackenzie): traffic officer vacancy rates by municipality (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of WCPP question 8 (Hon Lulama Mvimbi) to the Minister of Mobility (answered by Hon Ricardo Mackenzie): traffic officer vacancy rates by municipality (opens in a new tab) · details — WCPP Q8, answer (ii) table and answer (b)

Counter-evidence: Figures were supplied by the municipality to the province; traffic officers are distinct from law enforcement officers and parking attendants. No published source gives current (2026) staffing.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1062 · SMEC South Africa for Stellenbosch Municipality

SMEC reports that peak parking accumulation at the surveyed CBD sites rose 20% from 2020 to 2021 and a further 85% from 2021 to 2023, based on surveys on 15-19 Sep 2020, 22-24 Apr 2021, 18-20 May 2023 (peak) and 11-15 Jul 2023 (off-peak); it says 7 temporary EPWP workers employed at the existing Eikestad lot 'will be absorbed fully by the Municipality'.

Source: 25th Council meeting 2024-08-23, item 10.6.2: Request for approval of the Eikestad Parking Public Private Partnership Feasibility Study (with Annexure 1 feasibility report) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Council agenda 23 Aug 2024 item 10.6.2, Annexure 1 (SMEC feasibility study) executive summary PDF pp.28 and 33 (printed 4 and 9); s8 PDF p.264

Counter-evidence: Growth percentages are SMEC's; the 2020 and 2021 surveys were taken during the Covid-19 period, and SMEC does not say whether it adjusted for this. Absorption of the 7 workers is a stated intention, not a decision.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1063 · 9 July 2024 · SMEC South Africa for Stellenbosch Municipality

In SMEC's risk allocation the heritage risk is allocated to the public sector, and usage (demand) risk 'remains with the private sector', but the public sector 'needs to ensure that the required projects to increase demand and that policing of the illegally parked vehicles is done, to provide the required demand'.

Source: 25th Council meeting 2024-08-23, item 10.6.2: Request for approval of the Eikestad Parking Public Private Partnership Feasibility Study (with Annexure 1 feasibility report) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Council agenda 23 Aug 2024 item 10.6.2, Annexure 1 (SMEC feasibility study) Tables 8-9/8-10, PDF pp.253-256 (printed 229-232)

Counter-evidence: Risk matrix in a feasibility study; final allocation depends on the PPP agreement, which does not exist yet. Ties the garage's viability to municipal enforcement of illegal parking (see INV-law-enforcement claims).

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1067 · 19 August 2022 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Municipal Notice 96/2022 invited public comment by 19 Aug 2022 on a proposal to lease the Eikestad parking area to Eikestad Mall Management for management on a short-term basis, with an option of annual renewal until the PPP is finalised. It says the PPP project cycle 'may take more than 36 months', that internal parking mechanisms were found 'less favourable and not sustainable', that ending the short-term contracts of staff managing these areas was a benefit, and that rental 'can be set at an amount higher than the average rate of return'.

Source: Municipal Notice No. 96/2022: Notice for public comment – short-term lease of Eikestad Parking Area, Stellenbosch CBD (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of Municipal Notice No. 96/2022: Notice for public comment – short-term lease of Eikestad Parking Area, Stellenbosch CBD (opens in a new tab) · details — Municipal Notice 96/2022, paras 2, 3.2 and 3.4-3.5 (single page)

Counter-evidence: Proposal for comment only: no rental amount, term or outcome is stated, and no Council decision, signed lease or rental income appears among the records cited. In Jul 2024 SMEC still described the lot as municipally run with about R70 000 a month revenue and 7 EPWP staff, which suggests the lease may not have been concluded. The 30 Jul 2025 council item quotes the Feb 2022 decision that 'the parking be leased out a short-term base until the PPP process is finalised' (PDF p.611) but says nothing about a lease being concluded.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown CLM-1069 · 1 July 2025 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Municipal Notice 108/2025 (13 Jun 2025) announced paid parking management on Franschhoek's Main Road from 1 Jul 2025 at R10.00 an hour, included in the 2025/26 tariffs, with free parking kept at the upgraded Dirkie Uys/La Rochelle area. It cites the authorising resolution as '14th Meeting of the Council (Item 11.6.2 held on 24th May 2024)'.

Sources: Municipal Notice No. 108/2025: Franschhoek Parking Management (with document route form) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of Municipal Notice No. 108/2025: Franschhoek Parking Management (with document route form) (opens in a new tab) · details; Agenda: 14th Meeting of the Council of Stellenbosch Municipality, 2023-05-24 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Municipal Notice 108/2025, p.2 (p.1 is the signed route form); 14th Council agenda item 11.6.2, PDF p.2124

Counter-evidence: Date discrepancy: the 14th Council meeting with item 11.6.2 on Franschhoek Main Road parking was on 24 May 2023 (Council agenda of that meeting), not 2024; probably a clerical error in the notice. Operator, revenue and enforcement arrangements are not stated.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1070 · 25 March 2026 · Stellenbosch Municipality

A Mayco item for 25 Mar 2026 (7.1.4) proposes leasing the municipal vehicle testing station at Stellenbosch Traffic Services (1 Joubert Street) to a private operator for 10 years by tender, because it runs at a loss: tariffs are set by the provincial MEC under Regulation 139(1)(b), the station dates from 1982 and most equipment is over 10 years old; it says the loss contributes to the Traffic Department's budget deficiencies.

Source: Agenda: Mayoral Committee Meeting 2026-03-25 (incl. item 7.3.2 review and rescission of in-principle approvals to lease municipal properties) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — Mayco agenda 25 Mar 2026 item 7.1.4, paras 2, 4-6.2, PDF pp.101-103

Counter-evidence: Agenda item only; loss amounts are not quantified and the outcome (Council decision, public consultation, tender) is not known. Directors and MM recorded 'No comments received'.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

CorroboratedEditor-approved CLM-1340 · 5 July 2013 · Stellenbosch Municipality

Stellenbosch Municipality's Parking By-law then in force was promulgated on 5 July 2013, according to council item 11.5.6 (April 2021).

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Item 11.5.6 para 6.1, agenda p.952ff

Counter-evidence: The Provincial Gazette text of the 2013 by-law is not among the records cited for this claim; the municipal by-laws page carries the notice 'Documents are being restored'.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

CorroboratedEditor-approved CLM-1341 · Stellenbosch Municipality

A revised 'Stellenbosch Municipality Parking By-law, 2018' was accepted in draft by Council on 24 Aug 2020 (item 11.5.1, nem con), advertised for comment from 14 Sep to 14 Oct 2020 (only Bolt SA commented; its proposals were declined), recommended by the Infrastructure Services Committee (4 Mar 2021) and Mayco (14 Apr 2021), and tabled to Council as item 11.5.6 on 14/28 April 2021 for approval.

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Item 11.5.6 paras 6.2.1, 6.6 and recommendations; Annexure A p.957

Counter-evidence: The copy is a third-party mirror copy. Neither the final Council resolution nor a Provincial Gazette publication of the revised by-law is among the records cited for this claim.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

CorroboratedEditor-approved CLM-1342 · Stellenbosch Municipality

The revised draft by-law defines 'authorised officer' to include traffic wardens and traffic officers appointed under NRTA s3A and also 'any person nominated by any organisation and authorised by the Municipality', and separately defines 'authorized official' (a uniformed municipal employee with a distinctive permit and appointment certificate), 'parking marshals' (employees of a parking management organisation) and 'parking attendants'. Its contents include payment for parking, clamping or removal of unlawfully parked vehicles, impoundment and sale, exemptions, appeal and presumptions.

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Annexure A s1 definitions and contents list, agenda pp.957-968

Counter-evidence: The agenda copy of the by-law's body (pp.969-993) carries no readable text, so its offence, penalty, grace-period and warning clauses are not summarised here.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1343 · 22 October 2020 · Stellenbosch Municipality

The 2021 council report flagged as a risk that 'Delegations for the operational management of a parking service or the operational management of a parking service provider may need to be clarified', and said additional staff may be required.

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Item 11.5.6 paras 6.5, 6.7

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1344 · 1996 · Stellenbosch Municipality; Constitution (national)

Part B of Schedule 5 to the Constitution lists traffic and parking as a local government matter; the draft parking by-law cites this and s156(2) and (5) of the Constitution as its basis.

Source: Council item 11.5.6 'Request for approval for Stellenbosch Municipality's revised draft By-law on Parking' (meetings 14 & 28 April 2021), with Annexure A Parking By-law 2018 — Annexure A preamble, agenda p.957

Counter-evidence: This summary of the constitutional basis comes from the draft parking by-law's own text.

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1345 · 1977 · National Government (Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977)

CPA s334(2): a person declared a peace officer by Gazette notice may only exercise the powers while holding a certificate of appointment from the employer, to be produced on demand, and 'A power exercised contrary to the provisions of paragraph (a) shall have no legal force or effect.'

Source: Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 s334 (Acts Online) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — CPA s334(1)-(2)

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1346 · 1977 · National Government (CPA)

CPA s341: a person who receives a written notification from a peace officer for a Schedule 3 offence may, within 30 days, pay the stated amount and will not be prosecuted; where the notice is issued by a peace officer of a local authority, payment may be made to the local authority and 'shall be deemed to be a fine'; the local authority must send the magistrate a copy within seven days and refund any amount exceeding what the magistrate determines under s341(5).

Source: Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 s341 Compounding of certain minor offences (Acts Online) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details — CPA s341(1), (2)(a)-(d)

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1347 · 19 October 2018 · Minister of Justice (national)

GN 1114 (GG 41982, 19 Oct 2018) declares law enforcement officers appointed by a municipality to be peace officers within the municipality's area for listed offences, including municipal by-laws and 'applicable road traffic and road transportation legislation', with powers to issue CPA s56 and s341 notices, search arrested persons (s23), arrest without warrant under listed parts of s40(1), demand name and address (s41(1)) and execute warrants (s44).

Source: GN 1114 of 19 Oct 2018, GG 41982: Declaration of peace officers (CPA s334) - law enforcement officers appointed by a municipality (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of GN 1114 of 19 Oct 2018, GG 41982: Declaration of peace officers (CPA s334) - law enforcement officers appointed by a municipality (opens in a new tab) · details — GN 1114 Schedule, Columns 1-4

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1348 · 19 October 2018 · Minister of Justice / SAPS (national)

Under GN 1114 a certificate of appointment may only be issued to a municipal law enforcement officer if the employer holds a certificate of competency from the SAPS National Commissioner confirming the person is competent to exercise the Column 4 powers, after criteria including prior convictions, firearm fitness and training.

Source: GN 1114 of 19 Oct 2018, GG 41982: Declaration of peace officers (CPA s334) - law enforcement officers appointed by a municipality (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of GN 1114 of 19 Oct 2018, GG 41982: Declaration of peace officers (CPA s334) - law enforcement officers appointed by a municipality (opens in a new tab) · details — GN 1114 para (i)-(iii)

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1349 · 26 October 2023 · Minister of Justice (national)

The Minister of Justice told Parliament (reply NW3041, PMG page dated 26 Oct 2023) that for GN 1114 'law enforcement officer' means a member of a municipal police service, or a traffic officer, reserve traffic officer, traffic warden or reserve traffic warden appointed by a municipality under the NRTA, and that a municipality cannot establish a criminal investigation unit that is not a municipal police service.

Source: PMG: Question NW3041 to the Minister of Justice - municipal law enforcement officers as peace officers (reply) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of PMG: Question NW3041 to the Minister of Justice - municipal law enforcement officers as peace officers (reply) (opens in a new tab) · details — PMG NW3041 reply paras 1-3

Counter-evidence: This narrower reading of 'law enforcement officer' is the Minister's interpretation; its effect on by-law-only LEOs needs legal review.

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1350 · 18 September 2026 · Road Traffic Management Corporation (national)

RTMC Notice GN 7935 (GG 55409, 18 Sep 2026) sets national powers of a traffic warden 'subject to' the NRTA, CPA, AARTO or other law, including: arrest without warrant for an offence committed in the warden's presence; demand names and addresses; 'Issue Section 56 and Section 341 notices and or AARTO 31 Notices in respect of parking infringements, licence disc, registration number plates (display) and tyre roadworthiness only to parked vehicles at roadside'; and 'Enforce parking by-laws (arranging for vehicles to be clamped or removed ...)'. Training must be an accredited qualification at an approved Traffic Training Centre.

Source: GN 7935, GG 55409 of 18 Sep 2026: NRTA notice - Powers, duties and training requirements of a traffic warden (RTMC CEO, dated 9 Sep 2026) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of GN 7935, GG 55409 of 18 Sep 2026: NRTA notice - Powers, duties and training requirements of a traffic warden (RTMC CEO, dated 9 Sep 2026) (opens in a new tab) · details — GN 7935 paras 1 and 2(f),(g),(h),(q),(v)

Counter-evidence: Postdates the 2021 deployment; does not show what powers 2021 temporary officers had.

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1351 · 1 July 2026 · Minister of Transport / RTIA (national)

AARTO phase 2 began on 1 July 2026 in 62 municipalities, with phase 3 to cover the remaining municipalities and demerit points to follow, according to the Minister of Transport's parliamentary reply NW5257.

Source: PMG: Question NW5257 to the Minister of Transport - AARTO rollout (reply) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of PMG: Question NW5257 to the Minister of Transport - AARTO rollout (reply) (opens in a new tab) · details — PMG NW5257 reply

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1352 · 1 September 2026 · Western Cape Mobility Department (provincial)

Muneera Allie, spokesperson for the Western Cape Mobility Department, told The National (1 Sep 2026) that AARTO was not implemented in the Western Cape on 1 July and that the province continued to engage on outstanding operational, legislative, regulatory and systems-related concerns.

Sources: AARTO rollout: nearly 500,000 traffic-fine notices issued since July 1 (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · details; PMG: Question NW5257 to the Minister of Transport - AARTO rollout (reply) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of PMG: Question NW5257 to the Minister of Transport - AARTO rollout (reply) (opens in a new tab) · details — The National 1 Sep 2026, paras quoting Allie

Counter-evidence: No official list cited here places Stellenbosch in or out of the 62-municipality group.

Official response: None recorded yet.

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VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown CLM-1353 · 31 May 2021 · Stellenbosch Municipality

In May 2021 the municipality said it had approved, for 2021/22, an Auxiliary Law Enforcement Officer policy (R400 000 budget, up to 20 unpaid volunteers), a Rewards for Criminal Information policy, and an Externally Funded Law Enforcement and Traffic Officer policy from 1 July 2021 under which private parties can pay for officers; it also stated 'Although policing is not a municipal function...'.

Source: Serious about safety in Stellenbosch (municipal news) (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of Serious about safety in Stellenbosch (municipal news) (opens in a new tab) · details — Municipal news 31 May 2021, paras 2-6

Counter-evidence: The policies themselves are not among the records cited for this claim.

Official response: None recorded yet.

Last checked 29 October 2026

VerifiedEditor-approved CLM-1354 · 12 December 2025 · Western Cape Government (provincial) / Stellenbosch Municipality

The Western Cape Government said on 12 Dec 2025 that 19 new peace officers plus 6 existing Stellenbosch Municipality employees completed the provincial Law Enforcement Support programme, to be deployed to areas including Cloetesville and Kayamandi.

Source: Cloetesville, Kayamandi set to benefit from new Stellenbosch Municipality Peace Officer Graduates (original, opens in a new tab) ↗ · archived copy of Cloetesville, Kayamandi set to benefit from new Stellenbosch Municipality Peace Officer Graduates (opens in a new tab) · details — WCG statement 12 Dec 2025, paras 1-3

Counter-evidence: Success claim from the province; outcomes not measured.

Official response: None recorded yet.

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