Horrific murders in Mandeni push ANC Youth League to march
The league are demanding police minister Bheki Cele to attend and accept a memorandum from them.
The ANC Youth League plan to march against four police stations in the Mandeni area on Friday, following a spate of murders in which victims were killed and burnt.
In the past three weeks, five people have been killed and set alight.
The league wants police minister Bheki Cele to attend the march and accept a memorandum from them.
Regional deputy chairperson Zamile Mdletshe told a media briefing in Stanger on Monday that the league had lost faith in the four police stations that serve the Mandeni area – Mandeni, Newark, Sundumbili and Nyoni.
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The murders included the mysterious death of a Sundumbili police station clerk whose body was tied up with rope a few metres from his burnt-out car on a sugar cane farm in the Nyoni area.
Shortly after that, a couple were killed and set alight in Mandeni.
Early last year, the community of Hlomendlini in Mandeni accused Newark police of drinking on duty, taking bribes and closing the police station at night.
This resulted in a protest and residents demanding a satellite police station.
The area was described as a hotbed of murder, rape, drugs, robbery and burglaries.
Local men were patrolling the area at night because they no longer trusted the police.
“We will ask Cele to please send a special task force to deal with crime in Mandeni.
“We cannot be silent when we see no action or arrests while people are being killed,” said chairperson Mfanafuthi Ngcobo.
Ilembe police cluster spokesperson, constable Sibusiso Khuzwayo said police were doing everything in their power to investigate the deaths.
“We appreciate their concern and we are willing to work with anyone who has information that may lead into the arrest of the perpetrators,” said Khuzwayo.
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