DA march against crime

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DA MARCH AGAINST CRIME

DA supporters took to Sophie De Bruyn Street on Thursday, singing and chanting against crime as they made their way to the police national headquarters in Pretoria.

Laudium resident Magdeline Zulu said she was marching because criminals were "running wild in the country".

"We are here because we want the police to increase their numbers. There are more murders, more women are being raped, more cars are being hijacked, and corruption is rife, even among the cops themselves," she said.

She wanted the SA Police Service to do more.

"Every day on the news there is a murder or a rape being reported."

Members of the public and workers watched from building windows as the crowd in blue Democratic Alliance T-shirts marched through Pretoria's central business district.

They carried signs reading "Drug Units Now!" and "Where is the SAPS?"

A number of women carried babies on their backs, and some of the younger marchers danced.

A man wore a board reading: "If the head is dirty, the body's dirty" with a shower-head above his own head, in an apparent reference to the way in which President Jacob Zuma is commonly depicted in cartoons.


Source : Sapa /mr/cls/jk/jje
Date : 13 Nov 2014 11:41

 

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MURDER VICTIM'S FAMILY EMOTIONAL AT DA MARCH

The family of murdered three-year-old Cuburne van Wyk have yet to find closure, his emotional aunt Lenora de Wee said at a DA march in Pretoria on Thursday.

Van Wyk's burnt body was found at a mine dump days after he was kidnapped from her house in August.

"It makes no sense why they did that. If someone could help us to find closure because the courts say there isn't enough evidence but we all know who did it. We just want closure," she said.

De Wee was taking part in a march by the Democratic Alliance to protest against rising levels of crime.

She wanted National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega to let justice take its course.

"Please madam, let justice be revealed. There are criminals that sell children for drugs and cops who take bribes."

She said dockets often went missing and families were not updated about cases.

"There are a lot of unsolved cases because we don't know where the dockets are."

De Wee said the court had told her family there was not enough evidence to pursue the matter.

"The kids he was playing with saw him being taken by a man and the dogs barked," she said.

She said the way her nephew had died was cruel.

"He was found with a stone on his head and was burnt. That is cruel. That guy left us with a lot of pain.

"His siblings are asking us everyday where Cuburne is."

Phiyega accepted a memorandum handed over by DA MPL John Moodey.

She thanked the party and its supporters for a peaceful march and said the solution to combating crime was with the help of South Africans.

"We are busy with our festive season [crime fighting] campaign where were are asking everybody to join hands with us," she said at national police headquarters where the march ended.


Source : Sapa /mr/cls/jk
Date : 13 Nov 2014 13:05