SACP gathering condemns Xeno attacks
ALEXANDRA - Alex was in relative calm last night and this morning despite attempts by some to fane xenophobia by setting alight tyres on streets to incite the public.
Alex was in relative calm last night and this morning despite attempts by some to fan xenophobia by setting alight tyres on streets to incite the public.
Also, police visibility and the chilly and intermittent drizzle kept many indoors.
The attacks on Friday which led to low scale looting resulting in 9 people arrests for malicious damage to property and theft was this morning condemned by many at an SACP Venenzuela Solidarity gathering at Altrec Sports complex.
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The gathering was in solidarity with Venenzuelans against the USA’s Executive Order declaring that
country a threat to its security. They [gathering] condemned this as USA’s meddling in another country’s sovereignty.
The Young Communist League, MK military veterans, Cuban and Venezuelan embassy officials, the SACP provincial and national leadership condemned the xenophobia attacks as machinations of imperial forces pitting the poor against each other for poorly paid work.
Teddy Mkhize local chairperson of MK Veterans said the attacks which failed to blow out into full scale should be stopped at they created hatred against people who helped the South African’s struggle for liberation.
He said the attacks were anti Ubuntu and humanity, affected the economy and were the work of criminal elements.
Saying what went around came around he warned that the attacks taught children hatred, to behave badly and made them to normalise destructive of their own property and the country they should love and was fought for with loss of life.
Sipho Masuwe also of the veterans said the attacks failed to materialize as people saw through the intentions of the perpetrators which was to sew and exploit mayhem for criminal gain. He said they liaised with counterparts in IFP to urge their followers to also control any attempts to start violence as this was a disrespect of people who assisted and accommodated locals in exile without asking for compensation. He urged for community vigilance to protect the township from criminal elements.
The provincial police spokesperson Lungelo Dlamini said that police presence would continue with more deployment especially at night as that’s when the criminals preferred to attack under the cover of darkness.
