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Woensdag, 25 November 2020 | Tel: 021 910 6500 | e-pos: nuus@tygerburger.co.za
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Return of ‘The R5 meals’ The Shoprite group has re-introduced its R5 deli meals having subsidised more than 150 million meals since inception in 2017. The group has further subsidised its 600g in-house baked bread which remains at R4.99 since 2016. Stores sold 63 million R4.99 bread loaves in the past financial year. The group says with the effects of the pandemic on unemployment, increased hunger and food insecurity plagues vulnerable communities. The meal is the group’s effort to make sure that someone with just R5 in their pocket can afford to eat a hot meal.
EFF READY FOR COURT: ‘CITY IS CHILDISH AND FOOLISH...’
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he EFF said they were ready to meet the City of Cape Town head on in court to defend a civilian action for damages to be brought against them by the City, after the protests in Brackenfell. During an interview with TygerBurger, EFF Western Cape chair, Melikhaya Xego, said the City by pursuing such a lawsuit, acted in a “clownish, foolish and childish manner”. “The EFF had applied for a permit to protest, something neither the Cape Party did who was also present, nor the protesters who marched to parliament against farm murders earlier this year. “At our first protest we were assaulted by people who didn’t at all apply for a limit to their gathering, but nothing happened to them,” he said.
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Executive mayor of Cape Town Dan Plato on Friday said the City was intending a civilian lawsuit against the EFF to recover costs for damages done to municipal property. He also encouraged private property owners who suffered damages to join the City in the lawsuit. “Preliminary reports indicate a fire engine was torched, roads and traffic lights were damaged, and a field was set alight by EFF protesters. Car dealership windows were smashed at the corner of Paradys and Old Paarl Road, with private vehicles damaged due to stoning and several shops looted,” Plato said in a statement to the media on Friday 20 November. He said the City is in the process of determining the costs of damages to municipal property. Plato strongly condemned the violent actions and violation of agreed conditions on the number of protesters and the EFF’s own
commitment of non-violence. This, after Judge Siraj Desai refused to grant an urgent interdict against Friday’s protest on the basis that there would be no violence. “The EFF made it clear that they have no regard for the rule of law, and the City manager has indicated to me that senior officials are assessing the cost of the damage to city infrastructure,” said Plato. However, according to Xego, the police were biased and “chose the side of the racists”. “When the police saw the crowds were bigger than anticipated, they should have managed and controlled it better, but instead they fired stun grenades at the marchers,” Xego said. Plato said: “I want to assure the public that we will not tolerate lawlessness in this city and the EFF will be held accountable for the damage caused. “Where private property has been damaged during protest action, I want to encoura-
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ge property owners to alert the City so that our legal team can assess the feasibility of private property owners joining the City’s case against the EFF,” he said. “The City respects the rule of law, including the right of citizens to assemble provided this is done peacefully and with respect to the rights of others.” Plato said while he could not speak for the police, today’s violation of protest conditions would need to be taken into account by police in future and should form part of the record going forward. He commended the efforts of the police, metro police, law enforcement and traffic officials, as well as the contributions made by the local neighbourhood watches and community policing forums. “Through these efforts, an extremely volatile situation was kept largely under control, protecting the public and limiting damage to municipal and private property.”
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