ANC calls on authorities to act against racism
The ANC Western Cape says the investigating authorities should make haste to bring the suspected UCT students to book who brutally assaulted a cleaner in a parking lot in what appears to be a racist incident in Claremont.
Manenberg mother of six Delia Adonis (52) was recently repeatedly kicked and racially abused by the five grown assailants. She was picked up from a puddle of blood in a parking area that night by her son Tesh-Lee (17) who was also working as a casual cleaner. The men fled in a black Volkswagen Polo (see report)..
ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman says: "These kinds of old apartheid style racial abuse is festering and grows in the Western Cape. Various white racist attacks out of the blue were recorded in recent times, including a neighbourhood watch member who assaulted a house worker he claimed he mistook for a street prostitute and another man was lashed with a sjambok. Now, this mother was mercilessly kicked on 17 October - just because she dared to call law-enforcement at the night club where the five drunken men first assaulted another patron.
"It is clear racist issues are still festering and increasing in this province where some people are regarded as refugees - as if they have no rights! In recent time racial abuse flourished with people called k_ffirs and even baboons. Some people think the Cape is an enclave for their prejudices and treating people of colour as inferior This happens under DA styled institutionalised racism."
The ANC calls on the night club to hand over CCTV footage to SAPS, UCT to take action against such students, on the Police's provincial commissioner Arno Lamoer to have the claims investigated that a detective tried to make the mother's charges ‘go away' and the judiciary to get to the bottom of this matter.
"The ANC will keep an eye on the developments of this case and take action when needed," Fransman added.
Statement issued by ANC Western Cape leader, Marius Fransman, November 24 2014
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