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THE REPRESENTATIVE 9 Februar y 2018
EFF protests
over arrests
ANDISA BONANI
EFF party members protested
outside the Ezibeleni
Magist rate’s Court on
Monday in support of eight
people who were arrested on
Thursday for defying a
Grahamstown High Court order
by illegally erecting shacks on
municipal land.
Enoch Mgijima Local
Municipality (EMLM) won a court
interdict in October preventing
anyone from occupying the land
– known as the Highway in
Ezibeleni.
Sipho Gcwata, Simphiwe
Jikijela, Nobantu Sinxoto, Nelisa
Gawe, Zandisile Gcwata, Siseko
Fatyela, Sebenzile Mahe and
Novusile Mahe, appeared in the
Ezibeleni Magistrate’s Court and
were charged for contempt of
court by magistrate Xoliswa
Ngwendlu and each granted
R200 bail.
The case was postponed to
March 15 for further investigation.
Sipho, Jikijela, Gawe and
Zandisile, were arrested by the
Ezibeleni station commander
lieutenant-colonel Bekekile Waka
after they approaced the police
station to protest against the fo u r
people who were arrested before
them.
Jikijela said three elderly
residents were among those
arrested and thus the EFF had
asked Waka to arrest them
instead and to release the others.
They claimed they were
threatened and put behind bars,
but that they would continue to
invade the land.
Mahe, 71, who was arrested
with his wife Novusile, 56, said
ON SITE: EFF members protest against the arrest of eight people after shacks were erected on land in Ezibeleni, in violation of an
interdict prohibiting it
Picture: ANDISA BONANI
they were deprived of their
medication during their
incarceration. He said being
arrested was a painful experience
because he had to watch his wife
sleep on a cold cement floor for
four days.
Zolile Matiwane of Matiwane
attorneys who represented the
eight pro bono, said he was
approached by the EFF to assist
the arrested community
members. “We tried so hard to
get them released on Friday but
due to the seriousness of the
case we fell short. All we wanted
to do today was get bail for them
and we successfully did that. The
state initially proposed R500 bail
but due to most them being
unemployed, we managed to get
it reduced to R200.”
EFF MP Zolile Xalisa spoke
outside the court, encouraging
people to continue invading land.
“It cannot be that the young
people of this municipality still
live in their parents’ homes when
there is unoccupied land. The
police will have to arrest all of us
if that is their wish, but we are
not moved or shaken by this
incident and we will continue
standing by those who are
a r r e st e d . ”
EFF councillor in EMLM,
Luthando Amos, advised the
community to be strategic when
they decide to invade land by not
building their shacks during the
day but rather in the evening so
that the police would wake up to
a surprise new community and so
avoid arrests.
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ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA
AN ASSISTANT nurse is believed to
have taken his own life at Komani
Hospital on Tuesday, leaving behind a
suicide note.
Xolani Fongoqa, who is originally
from East London, was found hanging
in his room in the nurses’ home in the
morning.
He leaves his wife and two sons.
Police spokesman Captain Namhla
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Department of health spokesman
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DENISE BARTLETT
Search for missing
woman continues
THE search for Denise Bartlett, 71, who was
abducted following a house robbery in
Sterkstroom on Tuesday evening, continued
y e st e r d ay.
Bartlett and her granddaughter were
assaulted in their home after returning from
their business.
Two armed men escaped in a green Chev
owned by Bartlett. The vehicle was later
recovered near Amberdale outside Komani.
Police confirmed yesterday that the search
was still underway with police dogs being
used.
Bartlett is the mother of Enoch Mgijima Local
Municipality DA councillor Lindy
Bartlett-Haggard. - Rep reporter
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Thefts and robberies rife in Komani
LAST Tuesday Red Guard
response officers were
summoned to two
scenarios in which
would-be thieves
grabbed items from
shops and ran away and
a third when an elderly
woman was robbed and
wished to lay a charge.
The police were
summoned and the
matter handed over to
them, operations
manager Willie Reynecke
told The Rep.
On Thursday a
supermarket reported
that two old women had
stolen some items. The
police were called and
the matter handed over.
Response officers were
summoned to a tavern
which had called for help
after a man had been
robbed and stabbed in
the stomach outside the
premises and had run in
for help. The paramedics
were called to attend to
him.
On Saturday another
tavern called for
assistance, saying an
armed man had tried to
rape a woman and
members of the public
were beating the alleged
perpetrator. It was found
that it was a toy gun
which was confiscated.
The woman declined to
open a case.
That night officers
responded to a panic
alarm at a nursing
concern where they
found there had been a
break-in, with a window
forced open and the
burglar bars bent. The
police were called and a
nearby guard pointed out
the suspects who were
apprehended and taken
to the charge office. –
Rep reporter
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