The Hout Bay Civic Association on Wednesday welcomed calls by the African National Congress in the Western Cape for a commission of inquiry into the violence that erupted in Hangberg last week.
Several residents and police officers were injured in violent clashes.
City of Cape Town officials moved into the area to dismantle shacks erected illegally on Sentinel Hill.
Association spokesperson Greg Louw said the debacle should never have been politicised.
“We are trying to keep it non-political; we are non-political... We are trying only to address the civic issues which are housing and land,” he said
He added the ANC’s call for a formal probe into the alleged police brutality was welcomed.
“If it is now the ANC or the ANC Youth League or if it is the SACP or the DA coming out and helping us, it is just an issue of [us] saying we only want to focus on the civic issue,” he said.
- Eyewitness News
Several residents and police officers were injured in violent clashes.
City of Cape Town officials moved into the area to dismantle shacks erected illegally on Sentinel Hill.
Association spokesperson Greg Louw said the debacle should never have been politicised.
“We are trying to keep it non-political; we are non-political... We are trying only to address the civic issues which are housing and land,” he said
He added the ANC’s call for a formal probe into the alleged police brutality was welcomed.
“If it is now the ANC or the ANC Youth League or if it is the SACP or the DA coming out and helping us, it is just an issue of [us] saying we only want to focus on the civic issue,” he said.
- Eyewitness News
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