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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 11:00:13 Posted By: Jan
By Craig McKune
Four suspects have been arrested in connection with Wednesday night’s attack on leaders of a low-cost housing project in Masiphumelele near Ocean View.
The attack has been condemned by Housing MEC Whitey Jacobs, who has appointed an independent mediator to resolve a deadlock on the project.
On Wednesday night, one man was stabbed in the head and twice in the arm and several others were injured, one of them a toddler, by members of a group of about 200 protesters.
They threw stones and brandished knives and sticks at ward councillor Felicity Purchase, leaders of the Amkhaya Ngoku Housing Association and volunteers in Masiphumelele near Ocean View.
“(The suspects) will appear in the Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court soon,” Inspector Nkosikho Mzuku from the Ocean View police said.
The protesters did not want to be moved from a piece of land, originally marked for a public school but now marked for flats to house 352 families.
On Thursday morning, residents from the school site verbally threatened Amkhaya Ngoku members who wanted to erect a fence to prevent “backyard dwellers” from building new shacks, the association’s secretary, Bulelwa Jafta, said.
A press release issued by Jacobs’s office said: “It’s believed the group was angered by an earlier decision to partially cut off services to their site as the city bids to rehabilitate the land ahead of construction.”
Jacobs was “shocked and disappointed” at the incident, which happened 10 days after he met with both parties in an attempt to resolve the problem.
Residents on the school site said they did want to pay the R400 rent plus water and electricity to stay in the planned flats.
While an alternative piece of land had been made available to them by the city, with basic services, they said the land was too small, it was too close to a wetland and nearby residents did not want them to move in.
“We cannot allow this fighting to continue” Jacobs said.
“It stands in the way of a very crucial housing project for our people.”