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Original Post Date: 2009-01-22 Time: 01:00:08 Posted By: Jan
Community members attacked their mayor over cholera deaths in the Greater Tubatse Municipality in Limpopo, police confirmed on Monday.
Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba said Mayor Ralepane Mamekoa was attending a funeral for alleged cholera victims when his car was hit with stones on Saturday.
Limpopo had lost nine people to cholera since November last year and a total of 2 439 people were being treated in various hospitals for the disease by yesterday afternoon.
About 159 of these were new cases reported at the weekend, the provincial department of health spokesperson Phuti Seloba said.
Ramatseba said the mayor managed to escape unharmed, but the windscreen and windows of his car were broken.
Seven people were arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack.
They would appear in the Sikhukhune Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of malicious damage to property and public violence.
Community spokesperson Fanny Matsunyane, who was waiting with other community members outside the court for the release of the arrested people, threatened that if they were not set free, those outside would insist that they too be arrested.
“The seven did not smash the mayor’s car, but the community did,” he said, adding that the attack was allegedly sparked by the mayor’s bodyguard, who had earlier drawn a gun during a verbal confrontation with members of the community.
Matsunyane said: “The community was merely telling the mayor he was not welcome at the funeral of cholera victims because it looked like they had just come to take the people’s last respect.
“He was not welcome because he had failed to address issues of service delivery in the area, which led to the cholera outbreak,” he said.
“There is no clean water and the water we get is from a dam that is under construction and has some poisonous chemicals we do not know.
“We also get water from streams where even dead animals are thrown in.
“Now we have cholera and people are dying they want to look like they are supportive,” Matsunyane said.
He added that the community gave the mayor a memorandum stating their grievances during a march last week, but they had not received a response. –
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20090120064210668C473941