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MKMVA President Kebby Maphatsoe and a group called the ANC Youth League crisis committee called for the arrest of farmers who wreaked havoc in the Free State on Tuesday.
Violent demonstration by a group of farmers in front of the Senekal Magistrates Court in the Free State on October 6, 2020. Image: @ crimeairnetwork / Twitter
JOHANNESBURG – Some young members of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) said on Tuesday that farmers were undermining the judiciary.
MKMVA President Kebby Maphatsoe and a group called the ANC Youth League crisis committee called for the arrest of farmers who went on the rampage in the Free State on Tuesday.
They set fire to a police vehicle and raided the holding cells of two suspects linked to the murder of farm manager Brendin Horner in Senekal.
SENEKAL COURT pic.twitter.com/dnIVD7CurA
– REZA (@crimeairnetwork) October 6, 2020
Horner’s body was found tied to a post with a rope around his neck on Friday.
Maphatsoe said that while it was important that Horner’s killers be punished, the police could not allow the violence to go unchallenged.
And the whole country is silent. Anarchy must not have eyes or color. It has never happened here in South Africa where Africans would go to a police station, take the car out of the station and burn it.
“Some of them would have been arrested or some of them would have already been injured. But with this it is a special treatment, ”Maphatsoe said.
Katlego Mamabolo, who is a member of the ANC Youth League crisis committee, said they were upset by the scenes on Tuesday.
He said this was an attempt to undermine the authority of the South African state and judiciary.
“The behavior was criminal. It is a criminal act to commit arson, especially against state property. So the way they raised their farm kill complaints was fundamentally wrong in the law, ”Mamabolo said.
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