MEC RADZILANI CONDEMNS ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN MASISI
The MEC for Transport and Community Safety in Limpopo, Mme Florence Radzilani, has condemned with the strongest terms, the unrest that took place around Gumbu Village in Masisi, in which around 15 houses had been gutted by fire.
An Official of the Department, who was at the scene, confirmed that this spate of violence, is related to the killing of the local headman, who was reportedly killed earlier this week.
MEC Radzilani has called for calm and restraint, amongst the residents, and appealed with them to desist from acts of violence, that have the potential to spill into a civil war.
What is more concerning, according to MEC Radzilani, ‘is that the violence has also saw Police Vehicles also being torched’.
MEC Radzilani has welcomed the intervention by the Provincial Commissioner of SAPS, who have dispatched a battalion of Officers from various Units, including the Tactical Response Team, to quell the violence.
In the words of the MEC, ‘this unwarranted violence, undermines the great work that Government and organs of civil society are doing, to preserve peace and stability, in the Province’.
The MEC said that, ‘Community members should allow law enforcement officers to do their job, and anyone who undermines the authority of the Police, should meet the might of the wrath of the law’.
