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Issue: Month End - June, 2020
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Dunoon ward councillor’s office petrol bombed
THE DUNOON OFFICE of ward 104 Councillor Lubabalo Makeleni (ANC) was petrol bombed on Youth Day. It was previously torched two years ago. Photo: Peter Luhanga
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Land occupation blamed for arson attack •
This is the second time in two years that the ward 104 office in Dunoon has been attacked.
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The councillor says a “syndicate” selling plots and renting shacks for an illegal land occupation is to blame. Sporadic protests on the N7 and Dunoon area continue.
The Dunoon office of City of Cape Town ward
104 councillor Lubabalo Makeleni (ANC) was petrol bombed on Youth Day. The office is located in the iron-fenced yard of the municipal hall where there is a security guard permanently on duty. On Tuesday afternoon about 30 people sneaked onto the premises and threw a petrol bomb through the window, according to the security
guard. She said the group were mostly youngsters. After the bombing they simply walked off the premises. She said she reported the incident to community leaders who were holding a community meeting at the municipal sports field near Inkwenkwezi Secondary School at the time. The office was under-
going renovations after it was torched on 9 June 2018 by residents angered that the City had demolished their shacks. A City official said that Tuesday’s bombing destroyed office furniture, computers, a printer, as well as equipment and building materials belonging to the renovating contractor. Community leader Si-
nethemba Matomela believes the group involved were people trying to occupy land at the nature reserve near the Killarney International Raceway who had been frustrated by the City deploying a private security company to guard the land around the clock. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2