News24 reports that the families of the two men killed during the violent protests in Hammanskraal have criticised the company that employed them as casual workers for not providing adequate security.  

Elias Tshabalala was set alight and Lucky Nelushi beaten to death when residents turned on those who had come to evict them from three informal settlements.  Tshabalala’s brother Sam said he was deeply disturbed that a Pretoria-based company sub-contracted by the City of Tshwane to execute the evictions, failed to provide security guards for those carrying out the work.  Violence broke out in the area on Monday when employees of the Red Ants security company, SAPS and Tshwane Metro Police arrived to flatten the residents’ shacks and to evict them.  Five people have since been arrested, one of them for murder.  The evictions in the Kanana, Suurman and Sekampaneng informal settlements were suspended on Wednesday, following the violence.

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