Khoisan hunger striker hospitalised in the east
Khoisan taken to hospital after experiencing chest pains.
Christian Martins, one of the Khoisan members who are on a hunger strike outside the Union buildings, was taken to Muelmed hospital after experiencing chest pains.
The group is on day 14 of their hunger strike and are demanding to see either president Jacob Zuma or deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.
The group demand that the government recognise them as the first indigenous people of South Africa.
“They feel that their rights have not been recognised,” leader of the Congress of the People (Cope) Mosiua Lekota told Rekord earlier this month during an earlier march by the group.
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“Among other things they want was the inclusion of their language as an official language.”
The group had vowed not eat until their pleas are heard.
Martins has since been discharged.
The group previously declined to hand their memorandum over to minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe, saying they would rather wait for the president or deputy president.
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