Public violence in various places..
CAPE RESIDENTS DIVIDED BY RACE
Black and coloured Grabouw residents guarded their schools against attack from either side following violent protests, the Cape Times reported on Tuesday.
Coloured Pineview residents and black Siteview residents clashed on Monday. Police had to form a human shield to prevent the groups from entering each other’s territories.
A man was attacked by a group of about 15 people, who hit him with rocks and sticks and stabbed him in the shoulder. The group badly injured a second man.
Fifteen people were arrested and released on a warning, to appear in the Grabouw Magistrate’s Court soon on public violence charges.
Local resident Margaret le Roux told the newspaper: “A group of people of the coloured community have taken up a guarding position at the school to make sure the black people do not come damage it.
“In the black area there are groups of people standing on corners and there are people burning tyres.”
Another resident, Monyaduwe Molefe, said blacks were retaliating because they were being attacked.
SHOPS LOOTED OVERNIGHT IN HEIDELBERG
Shops owned by foreign nationals were looted overnight in Heidelberg, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.
The looting happened in the Ratanda area, police spokesman Constable Solani Mkhize said.
The ransacking and stealing from the traders was sparked by service delivery protests on Monday.
Five people were arrested on Monday when two houses and a municipal office were torched.
The houses were owned by two ward councillors.
PHOLA PROTESTERS BURN MINIBUS
Protesters set alight a minibus belonging to a private company in Phola near Ogies in Mpumalanga on Tuesday, police said.
Lt-Col Leonard Hlathi said the protesters were on the streets and the situation was “very tense”.
“The protest is not about service delivery, but employment at local coal mines.”
Schools and health facilities in the community were closed for the second day.
“Everything is at a standstill.” Hlathi said he had heard there would be talks between the authorities and protesters on Tuesday.
Thirty-six people had been arrested for public violence. Thirty of them were expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
TAXI PROTEST IN EAST CAPE
Police in East London intervened yesterday when disgruntled taxi drivers and rank managers almost clashed in the city's central business district.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Mtati Tana said police were called by members of the public to the Gillwell taxi rank after taxi drivers from different associations argued over rank fees.
"When police got to the scene, a fight was about to start but they intervened. It seems as if there are certain individuals who don't want to take the responsibility of paying rank fees, and those who pay fees are not happy," Tana said.
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Public violence in various places..
CAPE RESIDENTS DIVIDED BY RACE
Black and coloured Grabouw residents guarded their schools against attack from either side following violent protests, the Cape Times reported on Tuesday.
Coloured Pineview residents and black Siteview residents clashed on Monday. Police had to form a human shield to prevent the groups from entering each other’s territories.
A man was attacked by a group of about 15 people, who hit him with rocks and sticks and stabbed him in the shoulder. The group badly injured a second man.
Fifteen people were arrested and released on a warning, to appear in the Grabouw Magistrate’s Court soon on public violence charges.
Local resident Margaret le Roux told the newspaper: “A group of people of the coloured community have taken up a guarding position at the school to make sure the black people do not come damage it.
“In the black area there are groups of people standing on corners and there are people burning tyres.”
Another resident, Monyaduwe Molefe, said blacks were retaliating because they were being attacked.
SHOPS LOOTED OVERNIGHT IN HEIDELBERG
Shops owned by foreign nationals were looted overnight in Heidelberg, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.
The looting happened in the Ratanda area, police spokesman Constable Solani Mkhize said.
The ransacking and stealing from the traders was sparked by service delivery protests on Monday.
Five people were arrested on Monday when two houses and a municipal office were torched.
The houses were owned by two ward councillors.
PHOLA PROTESTERS BURN MINIBUS
Protesters set alight a minibus belonging to a private company in Phola near Ogies in Mpumalanga on Tuesday, police said.
Lt-Col Leonard Hlathi said the protesters were on the streets and the situation was “very tense”.
“The protest is not about service delivery, but employment at local coal mines.”
Schools and health facilities in the community were closed for the second day.
“Everything is at a standstill.” Hlathi said he had heard there would be talks between the authorities and protesters on Tuesday.
Thirty-six people had been arrested for public violence. Thirty of them were expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
TAXI PROTEST IN EAST CAPE
Police in East London intervened yesterday when disgruntled taxi drivers and rank managers almost clashed in the city's central business district.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Mtati Tana said police were called by members of the public to the Gillwell taxi rank after taxi drivers from different associations argued over rank fees.
"When police got to the scene, a fight was about to start but they intervened. It seems as if there are certain individuals who don't want to take the responsibility of paying rank fees, and those who pay fees are not happy," Tana said.
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