Category Archives: Bhekimuzi Ndlovu

Four Arrests in Umlazi

Update: All four of the arrested comrades were released at 1:10 today. No bail was demanded. There was a vigorous protest outside the police station.

15 August 2012
Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement

Four Arrests in Umlazi

On Sunday night the Zakheleni Crisis Committee led a march of hundreds of people on the police in Umlazi to demand that they make arrests with regard to the attempted murder of Bhekimuzi Ndlovu following the public screening of a video in which Ndlovu identified his attackers. The police responded by arresting the named individuals and by addressing a mass meeting in the settlement where the promised further investigations. After this the meeting dispersed peacefully.

Following this meeting the family of one of the men that was arrested went to the police and claimed that four leaders of the Zakheleni Crisis Committee had assaulted them. This is an outright fabrication. In fact the police were present in the settlement at the time of the alleged assault.  Continue reading →

Two Arrests Made in Connection with the Shootings in Umlazi, Further Threats to Bheki Buthelezi

Monday, 13 August 2012
Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement

Two Arrests Made in Connection with the Shootings in Umlazi, Further Threats to Bheki Buthelezi

On the 30th June Bhekimuzi Ndlovu was shot in the Zakheleni shack settlement following a series of protests against the Ward Councillor and for land, housing and other development. The case number is 225/07/2012.

Ndlovu had become close to Bheki Buthelezi and to the struggle that was being organised in the Zakheleni shack settlement. However he had been close to the local ANC and the councillor and so they saw him as a traitor. He was shot by supporters of the ruling party. They sacrificed him, like an animal. They thought that he was dead. After Ndlovu was shot the ANC supporters convened a meeting and said that Bheki Buthelezi was the one who had shot Ndlovu. It has become a typical tactic of repression for the ruling party to engage in violence against activists and to then blame the activists for this violence. However unbeknownst to the local ANC Ndlovu had survived the shooting and was in hospital.

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