EVICTION OF IFP SUPPORTERS WHO ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED HOUSES cont. STRONG POLICE PRESENCE PEOPLE MOVING OUT REAX. THEMBA KHOZA

Record ID: 893510

  • Title: EVICTION OF IFP SUPPORTERS WHO ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED HOUSES cont. STRONG POLICE PRESENCE PEOPLE MOVING OUT REAX. THEMBA KHOZA
  • Date: 12th December 1996
  • Summary: EVICTION OF IFP SUPPORTERS WHO ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED HOUSES cont. STRONG POLICE PRESENCE PEOPLE MOVING OUT REAX. THEMBA KHOZA
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  • City: THOKOZA PENDUKA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96DEC12R02
  • Story Text:EVICTIONS IN PENDUKA SECTION OF THOKOZA continues: RE: IFP supporters illegally occupied houses which were abandoned during violence in early '90's

    09.15.47 STRONG POLICE PRESENCE
    09.17.41 POLICE OFFICER WITH ASSAULT RIFLES
    09.18.30 PEOPLE LOADING BELONGINGS ONTO TRUCK
    09.19.07 ARMED POLICE WATCHING PEOPLE REMOVING BELONGINGS FROM HOUSE
    09.23.32 MORE POLICE ARRIVING
    09.25.10 POLICE OFFICER HOLDING PISTOL AT DOOR OF HOUSE
    09.28.42 BYSTANDERS
    09.32.15 WOMAN HOLDING HUGE PINK TEDDY BEAR
    09.39.35 LOTS POLICE WALKING INTO YARD
    09.45.53 FRANK [PRESS FUNNIES]
    09.51.35 REFLECTION OF POLICE OFFICER IN MIIRROR OF DRESSING TABLE ON PAVEMENT
    09.55.12 VARIOUS PEOPLE REMOVING BELONGINGS & FURNITURE FROM HOUSES
    09.56.19 POLICE OFFICER WITH ASSAULT RIFLE WALKING BACKWARDS IN YARD
    10.02.24 WIDE HOUSE WITH BELONGINGS OUTSIDE
    10.04.18 PEOPLE WATCHING
    10.23.20 POLICE STANDING OUTSIDE DOOR
    10.24.44 THEMBA KHOZA [GAUTENG IFP LEADER] WATCHING
    10.30.08 REAX. THEMBA: ...I think we see a monkey business going on here. You realize all those houses who were evicted yesterday, the people are back again. This is a futile excercise. It's an irresponsible excercise on the part of...ANC led government...those who are in the present regime were suppose to know that such excercises are always futile...
    10.30.46 ...I'm worries that the peace that we had gained by the people on the ground....hasto facde away so quickly and like this...
    10.31.17 ...the situation is not as simple as that because the occupation here was not by anybody's desire; it was a political conflict that we saw in the past...those houses that they left there are still today occupied by the ANC people...
    10.31.50 ...the government are not victing those ANc people who are occupying IFP houses...the council in it's shortsightedness should chosen a short road which is not fruitful enough, which is not conducive for the climate that we have in Thokoza...
    10.32.35 ...the houses legally given to them [IFP] are occupied by other people as well...they know that but they said to us, provide us with alternative accommodation...
    10.33.38 ...they are actually bringing again violence into the area; the kind of tension around here the kind of confrontation we've seen between the people & the police, the harrassment & the arrest...
    10.34.17 ...we've got an insensitive government, we've got an inhuman government as much as the De klerk government was...TAKING MATTER TO COURT...LOOKING FOR COURT INTERDICT AGAINST THE COURT ORDER
    10.35.56 ...IFP locally are now calling for a rolling mass action...
    11.13.03 MOUNTED POLICE PATROLLING STREETS
    11.15.08 LITTLE GIRL WATCHING
    11.19.10 PEOPLE IN STREETS
    12.29.07 BABY WITH DUMMY
    12.30.51 WOMAN CARRYING TV SET INTO HOUSE
    12.33.27 VARIOUS PEOPLE MOVING OUT
    12.34.03 MAN SPEAKING CELL PHONE
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