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TimesLIVE reports that ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has warned the brutal action by VIP protection officers seen kicking, stomping and dragging vehicle occupants on the N1 should not be taken lightly.
Mbalula said if not addressed properly it could lead to a public revolt as South Africans were already pessimistic about the behaviour of the blue-light brigade on the roads. He was speaking after a video emerged at the weekend showing Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection unit assaulting motorists on the N1. “Honestly, it's a kind of thing that makes people to march and take down a government – it angers you. I saw a lot of people on social media frowning upon that. It’s the kind of thing that can get people into the street. So it must never be taken lightly, what those cops did – that's why we need to get to the bottom of that and we've got checks and balances to do so. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate [Ipid] must investigate them,” Mbalula commented. He said those blaming Mashatile or the ANC were seeing an opportunity to further tarnish the party’s name. “The ANC as a brand is tarnished by opportunists, by chance takers who at any given point, they jump at the opportunity to attack the organisation. The ANC condemns this act of violence in our streets,” he said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgothatso Madisa at TimesLIVE
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