Irate residents of Ledig near the Sun City resort outside Rustenburg, refused to allow North West Local Government MEC Collen Maine to speak to them on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could not allow the MEC to speak. We agreed yesterday (Tuesday) that all arrested people must be released by 10am (Wednesday), before the MEC address us,\u201d said community leader Pakaza Mdluli.<\/p>\n
Residents have waged a week-long protest over alleged missing tribal funds. A number of protesters have been arrested during the protests which centre on the alleged mismanagement of some R527 million of tribal and community funds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue about DJ (Ditsele Phologoane, the chairman of the Bakubung Economic Development Unit) is not paramount. The key demand is for all arrested people to be released,\u201d Mdluli said.<\/p>\n
After the failed meeting, some residents chanted:\u201d Phanzi Phologoane, Phanzi\u201d (down Phologoane, down), and as some headed home, a group of youngsters went to barricade the road. The police fired rubber bullets to disperse them.<\/p>\n
Some residents now fear the protests will soon spiral out of control.<\/p>\n
\u201d If this toyi-toyi does not end now, criminal elements would use it to advance their activities. People will be killed all in the name of protest,\u201d said Eugene Ngima, 60.<\/p>\n
He said parents were afraid to send children to school.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill we be proud if our children failed at the end of the school year?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis burning of houses and shops must end now before more people are hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
A shop was burnt down on Tuesday night, at the Ledig small industry, another shop was torched at the weekend and four foreign-owned shops were looted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Irate residents of Ledig near the Sun City resort outside Rustenburg, refused to allow North West Local Government MEC Collen Maine to speak to them on Wednesday. \u201cWe could not allow the MEC to speak. We agreed yesterday (Tuesday) that all arrested people must be released by 10am (Wednesday), before the MEC address us,\u201d said … Continue reading “Foreigners targeted in Ledig violence”<\/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":[1610,1141,34,11490,8796,140,2564],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-arson","tag-attacks","tag-crime","tag-ledig","tag-northwest","tag-violence","tag-xenophobia"],"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\/18503","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=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18504,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}