Picketing outside the Krugersdorp Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 31 October, angry residents followed as the ANC Women’s League (ANC WL) led in song to oppose the killing of women and children.
Inside the court a 24-year-old man from Munsieville stood in the docks for brutally killing his alleged lover.
According Joey Mokone from ANC WL in Munsieville a crying baby was left on the woman’s lifeless body.
“We condemn this and other killings in the informal settlement and unite in protest to show that there is no place for murderers and criminals in Munsieville,” she says. Protestors marched from the court to the Krugersdorp Police Station where they handed over a memorandum stipulating their grievances with the local satellite police station.
“Our main concerns are police reaction time and lack of urgency. We had one case where a man died in front of the police station because police took too long with paperwork,” says Mokone.
According to Mokone Munsieville residents are living in fear as crimes such as murder and rape have increased in the area over the past year.
Gathered in protest, community members and representatives of various churches and organisations such as the Community Work Programme (CWP) emphasised that they refused to live like prisoners in their own homes and that they were adamant to stop crime in Munsieville.
The suspect accused of murder had his case postponed until 13 December when the protestors also will return to court.
