{"id":5091,"date":"2013-06-11T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2013-06-11T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:02:25","slug":"excrement-wars-continue-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5091","title":{"rendered":"Excrement wars continue in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It started as toilet wars...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More faeces has been dumped at government offices in Cape Town despite a heavy police presence around the city bowl.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

The Western Cape provincial government and the City of Cape Town on Monday\u00a0reinforced security on the roads leading to the city, on the trains and around the provincial legislature, after picking up that further “poo attacks” were planned on government buildings.<\/p>\n

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Rumours of a planned protest to the legislature by human excrement-carrying Makhaza residents started flying on Sunday night and an unusually high number of police \u2013 in uniform and plain-clothed could be seen outside the legislature by mid-morning on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Around the same time, a number of the protesters and their leaders \u2013 including former ANC councillor Andile Lili \u2013 responsible for dumping faeces at the steps of the legislature\u00a0were arrested at the Esplanade train station in Ysterplaat, according to sources.<\/p>\n

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Police could not be reached to give details about these arrests.<\/p>\n

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Lili confirmed to the Mail & Guardian<\/em> that he and six others had been arrested. He claimed not to know the reasons for their arrest, saying there was no wrong doing from their side.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have not done anything wrong. It\u2019s our human rights and dignity that\u2019s being trampled upon,\u201d he said from a police van.<\/p>\n

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Last week, Western Cape Premier and Democratic Alliance leader\u00a0Helen\u00a0Zille’s convoy came under attack <\/a>after protesters from Harare, Khayelitsha, threw feaces at the motorcade. The premier, who arrived in the area for a scheduled talk in a bus, had to leave in a car with one of her\u00a0VIP protectors.<\/p>\n

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Police intelligence<\/strong>
\nA source from the City of Cape Town said police intelligence picked up on Sunday afternoon that there were plans to disrupt the Monday morning traffic on the N2 to Cape Town and also to dump more excrement\u00a0at the legislature.<\/p>\n

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Two of the plain-clothed police outside the provincial legislature said they were taking the matter seriously as the legislature is a national key point.<\/p>\n

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But shortly after 3pm, three men \u2013 including\u00a0Loyiso Nkohla, an ANC councillor in the City of Cape Town \u2013 emptied two portable tanks of exrecement\u00a0at the Protea Assurance Building,\u00a0which houses the provincial departments of cultural affairs and sport and agriculture.<\/p>\n

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The building is less than 200m\u00a0from the provincial legislature.<\/p>\n

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Nkohla admitted to being one of the \u201cpoo dumpers\u201d,\u00a0saying he wanted the government to get a sense of what the poor were living with in Makhaza, Khayelitsha.<\/p>\n

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When the M&G\u00a0<\/em>arrived at the dumping scene, a man, who only identified himself as \u201cfrom the building management\u201d was hosing off the remnants of the waste from the ground floor reception area at around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n

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He said he was not present when the waste was dumped but had been called from upstairs afterwards.<\/p>\n

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He added that a security guard was present but had been caught off guard.<\/p>\n

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Ungovernable<\/strong>
\nZille said the incident was \u201ca new manifestation of the long-standing campaign\u201d to make the city ungovernable, which has been the ANC Youth League\u2019s stated strategy for a long time, she said.<\/p>\n

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Zille said the league has roped in several ANC councillors who are also at the forefront of the campaign.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is bizarre that the campaign is focusing\u00a0on\u00a0the city’s \u2018portable flush toilet\u2019, which the city is using to eradicate the remaining bucket toilets.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe portable flush toilet is used like an ordinary flush toilet.\u00a0The waste is stored in a tank that is clean, hygienic and odourless, and the tank is serviced three times a week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She said the ANC Youth League was stealing these tanks and then spreading the contents around various government buildings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have no doubt the voters will have something to say about this come the next election,\u201d Zille added. – M&G<\/p>\n

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