ABOUT THE NKRA

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The NKRA is a voluntary association of more than half of the residential buildings in the suburbs of Killarney and Riviera, which provides a forum for the sharing of information, and enables our community to speak to municipal departments with a unified voice in order to safeguard the interests of our residents.

The NKRA works to protect and enhance the suburb as a whole, in order to preserve our quality of life and our property values. We focus primarily on trying to get the government to do its job in Killarney, as well as serving as the Killarney Sector of the Hillbrow Community Policing Forum. We liaise with the ward councillors, and with the various municipal departments and the SAPS, to maintain and improve infrastructure, and to improve security and the enforcement of the by-laws. We also undertake occasional small projects to uplift the area, to the extent that our limited finances permit.

The Vision of the NKRA is encapsulated in our motto: “Safer, Cleaner, Better, Greener”. In pursuit of these strategic objectives, we currently focus primarily on the following:

• Reducing the various crime risks on the streets;
• Undertaking various projects, including repairing municipal infrastructure where this is allowed, to make the area safer and to improve our quality of life;
• Reducing the squatter and hawker and taxi and street-drinking problems;
• Building up a sustainable recycling project;
• Supporting community projects such as the Cleanup/Upliftment project, the Killarney Library, the community food gardens project, and the community walking groups.

If you have any specific suggestions to help us implement this vision, please do share them. We welcome all inputs, on all issues. We are also happy to receive photographs of any interesting things that are happening in Killarney-Riviera, which we might include in future newsletters. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, to receive notices and agendas etc, please send an email to wdford@global.co.za. Our NKRA website is at www.nkra.org.za, our NKRA Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/groups/1915871842042728, and you can link to our Community WhatsApp Group at www.nkra.org.za/whatsapp-link/.

The members of the NKRA are the bodies corporate of the area, and membership of the NKRA is voluntary. This membership is renewed every year by the body corporate paying their annual membership “subscription” of R50 per annum per each unit in the building (there is a maximum charge of R4,000 per building). Our NKRA monthly general meetings are held on the third Wednesday of every month. Only the representatives of the member bodies corporate can vote on resolutions, with one vote per member building, but all property owners, residents and employees of the buildings and businesses in the suburbs of Killarney and Riviera are welcome to attend our public meetings. 

We strongly support setting up various Safe Zone projects around the area, to improve security and quality of life. These are funded by the buildings adjacent to each Safe Zone, and they are designed according to the preferences of those buildings. We have researched retaining a CAP security patrol, but this will cost around R250,000 per month, for a single patrolling vehicle.

Our biggest project at present is the regular repair of unsafe surfaces on the pavements with the heaviest pedestrian traffic, to improve safety. We are no longer allowed to patch potholes in the roads, but we constantly lobby the municipality to fix our roads, as well as water leaks. This work is on-going.

Another main focus is the improvement of security generally, and in particular the illegal taxi rank in 1st Street. We are trying to relocate the taxi rank to a location inside the Killarney Mall.

We are currently cleaning up the graffiti in Killarney, and we will keep painting over any future graffiti as well.

Our other current projects include a gardener in the park – sponsored by Russel Fisher Properties, and a Park Ambassador who ensures safety and peace of mind in the park – sponsored by Vision Tactical Security. We also have a street-sweeper who is sponsored by RCS Security, who cleans the main pedestrian routes in the area two days a week. The Killarney Mall currently funds and manages a gardening service which looks after the municipal park in 4th Street.

We also support a cleaning and upliftment project, and the Killarney Library, the growing of food in the park, and other community initiatives.