A church was set alight during a violent protest in Kalkfontein near Kuils River on Sunday evening, Western Cape police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s confirmed that the church has been set alight. Apparently it appears it was set alight by protestors,\u201d said police spokesperson Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I understand it, it\u2019s a continuation of the land invasion protests that were going on the weekend,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo arrests have been made so far. The investigation is still on going,\u201d says Kinana.<\/p>\n
Kinana could not confirm whether the protests were linked to similiar protests late in March when a council home rented by law enforcement officer was petrol bombed, allegedly by a group of people evicted from land they illegally occupied.<\/p>\n
Members of the public order policing unit would remain on scene, Kinana says.<\/p>\n
Since March, the area has seen an invasion to occupy a stretch of land belonging to the city council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A church was set alight during a violent protest in Kalkfontein near Kuils River on Sunday evening, Western Cape police said. \u201cIt\u2019s confirmed that the church has been set alight. Apparently it appears it was set alight by protestors,\u201d said police spokesperson Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana. \u201cAs I understand it, it\u2019s a continuation of the land … Continue reading “Church set alight by land invaders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6146,11459,11460,163,206,399],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-church","tag-kalkfontein","tag-kuils-river","tag-land","tag-protest","tag-western-cape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18436,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions\/18436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}