Five women have been arrested in Cape Town for allegedly dousing a Sanco leader and his five-year-old daughter with petrol.
|||Cape Town - A row over jobs at a MyCiTi bus construction site in Milnerton has led to the arrest of five women alleged to have doused a man and his five-year-old daughter with petrol and threatened to set him alight.
SA National Civic Organisation leader in Joe Slovo Park Luthando Lekevana, 37, said on Tuesday the women arrived at his house on Monday morning demanding he stop protesting about jobs for pals at the site. When he refused to speak to them they pepper-sprayed him and “threw petrol on me and my daughter while shouting ‘set him alight’. I fought them off with a broom.”
They then fled.
Police said the five women, aged between 37 and 45, were due in court on Thursday.
Lekevana alleged the “leader” of the group had been recruiting friends from outside the settlement to work on the project. “They are angry because I have been asked by the community to make sure she stops.”
City council engineer and project site manager Leon Bester said
the firm had sourced local labour, and hired contractors from the area. It was still looking for subcontractors but no locals had come forward with the skills.
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Cape Argus