‘Targeted’ SACP members march in Inchanga to demand police protection
Hundreds of South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters marched through the streets of the hotspot township of Inchanga to the local police station on Friday morning, demanding protection from people who were targeting party members. The SACP said it had lost seven members in the area since the beginning of 2016. They were shot and killed execution-style, it said. Former eThekwini mayor for the Moses Mabhida region James Nxumalo, who is also a resident of Inchanga, led the march. Among their demands is that a new police station be built close to the community, and that police increase their presence and visibility. They say that when police are called to attend incidents, they arrive long after people had been killed. Nxumalo said at the march: "We strongly believed that our members are being targeted and killed. We are saying that these killings must stop now." He said people in the area were being prevented from joining the ANC by people who wanted to use the ANC to further th...
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