Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 21-07-2019
Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has called for the urgent intervention of the police in Lenasia South and surrounding areas following unrest over land grabs.
On Friday residents blocked roads leading into Lenasia South as they protested against the illegal occupation of land in the area.
Unrest followed on Saturday when police fired rubber bullets to break up a standoff between homeowners and shack dwellers near the K43 on Narans Farm.
Mashaba’s spokesperson Luyanda Mfeka says, the situation is getting out of control and that tensions in the area are escalating to the point where it is only a matter of time until someone is seriously hurt or killed.
“Residents within the area are reporting armed groups of land occupiers firing on the homes of residents in the affected areas.The situation is such that the JMPD, with its comparatively limited Public Order Policing resources, cannot handle the situation alone and require the full and most decisive intervention of the SAPS.”
Mfeka says while Mashaba is sympathetic to the plight of those who don’t have land, illegal land occupation and threatening the safety of other people and their property cannot be acceptable.
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