EFF Joburg leader killed in Alexandra protest

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Published 2024-08-05
EFF Johannesburg regional leader Moshe Mphahlele was killed in a protest in Alexandra. He was caught in the crossfire as the police and private security attempted to disperse a crowd occupying vacant flats. Residents have been trying to force their way into hundreds of government container homes originally built as Covid-19 shelters. Veronica Makhoali reports.

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All Comments (21)
  • Taxes are unbearable at the moment, our leaders still have the audacity and an extra liver to spend 300million on containers, more like 10 million max spent, then 290million looted.
  • @DigsWigs2022
    That death was unnecessary at all levels. Rest in peace. A black person is invisible even to black leaders.
  • @josh3221ify
    There is serious poverty in this country. People literally living in piles of rubble
  • 300 million?????🤯🤯🤯 that’s, at most, a R10 mil job
  • @Nomngcefe
    How can you spend 300 million building shacks. And why do you prevent people from occupying shacks built with their taxes
  • @Kubeka2
    R300 000 000 Three hundred million rand. Who make decisions like this? Who benefit from these decisions?
  • @butterygold
    They probably took most of the funds but didn’t actually care. Someone got rich from these containers and abandoned them. Now they have police protecting empty containers, doesn’t make sense.
  • @blackrain7206
    It is going to take a while for our people to wise up. We don't need politicians however politicians need us to stay in power, we can remove them any time.
  • R300 000 000 wasted, well if that doesnt sum up the anc eff failure of governance, idk what will
  • I have been involved in many projects and this budget is crazy for such a mere project. R300m is a lot of money for this lousy project. It ain’t worth this much.
  • @xnxo7237
    Why not allocate them to companies which will house their workers and the municipality gets their money.
  • The reporter did not give full.interpretation of what the guy was saying, i hope the presenter understood Cause what the guy was saying is very disturbing and hurting. One of the omission is that the pregmant woman was shot at, then she crawled and they kept on shooting jer while she was crawling. Wow such hatred
  • @esahm373
    Those "rubber bullets" often contain hard metal parts inside. Private securites have no business attacking South African citizens expressing their grievances! Will this country ever transform from apartheid to a functional democracy?
  • @pamkheswa
    Who does the private security company belong to? Who called them? We are led by mafia gangs.