ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the rise of crime in Hout Bay and the impact this has had on how residents inhabit and experience the spatial and identity boundaries of Hout Bay. It explores what forms of governance are employed to address crime across all three areas of Hout Bay. The chapter shows that one of the outcomes of private and informal governance over safety and security is the confirmation of neo-apartheid residential segregation in governance terms too. It describes less pejorative view of the informal governance of security. The chapter looks at how informality manifests in three distinct ways: through spontaneous and sporadic vigilantism in Imizamo Yethu; the internal policing of crime in Hangberg; and through the illegal construction of road closures. It discusses the governance of security and safety in Hout Bay is shared between civil society, private companies, informal actors, and the state.
