WATCH: ANC Youth League marches against Mandeni police stations
The area has been described as a hotbed of murder, rape, drugs, robbery and burglaries.
Hundreds of ANC Youth League members made their way from Isithebe to Sundumbili this morning, singing and cheering as they marched against four Mandeni police stations.
Following a spate of murders in which victims were killed and burnt, 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.
Ilembe police cluster spokesperson, constable Sibusiso Khuzwayo said police were doing everything in their power to investigate the deaths.
The crowd has slowly made its way to Sundumbili SAPS where they will hand over a memorandum to Cluster Commander Brigadier Bheki Zondi.
The league had hoped to hand it over to police minister Bheki Cele, however it has not yet been confirmed whether he is in Mandeni.
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