Violence in Midvaal fuelled by ANC, says DA’s Mashaba
15 July 2016
Johannesburg - The violent protests taking place in the Midvaal Municipality – which is run by the Democratic Alliance – were being fuelled by the ANC, the DA's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, said on Thursday.
"Our friends from the ANC... are disrupting the municipality of the Midvaal," Mashaba told members of the public and students who had gathered at the University of Witwatersrand's Great Hall on Thursday evening to listen to a debate between the ANC’s current MMC of Finance in the City of Johannesburg, Geoffrey Makhubo, Mashaba and Economic Freedom Fighters deputy president Floyd Shivambu.
Violent protests broke out in Meyerton on Thursday morning when Midvaal Municipality employees barricaded roads with rocks and burning tyres.
According to eNCA online, the protests broke out around 08:00.