Economic Freedom Front rioters are forcing black commuters in taxis to dig barricades and trenches on the Pienaarsrivierpoort Road near Mamelodi, Pretoria. They are stopping trucks with sand and forcing them to offload there. And The Rekord journalists DuPreez Martins and Eliot Mahlase two white reporters of The Rekord were attacked by an angry mob at the site...
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Alleged EFF supporters allegedly force taxi commuters to dig trenches.
Du P Martins | 4 February 2015 17:27
Two Rekord news reporters were pelted with stones on Wednesday afternoon at barricades apparently erected by Economic Freedom Fighters members on the Pienaarsrivierpoort Road near Mamelodi.
They were reacting to a tip-off that taxi drivers on the road were being stopped by people claiming to be EFF members. They gave taxi commuters picks and shovels, instructing them to dig trenches in the road.
Trucks loaded with sand were also compelled to stop and to offload their cargo in the middle of the road. This was allegedly part of a "protest by EFF members."
Upon turning into the Pienaarsrivierpoort Road, the Rekord team — Dup Martins and Eliot Mahlase — came across dark smudges on the road where tyres had been set alight.
“We then passed two trenches dug in the road,” said Martins. “Driving on, we encountered a barrier of sand and dirt piled about 1.5 metres high. Young men were sitting on the embankment, deciding which vehicles should be allowed to pass through.”
When the team tried to take pictures of the barricade, between ten and fifteen young men loitering next to the road stormed the car and started pelting it with stones. One of the stones were thrown right into the vehicle, narrowly missing the driver and shattering the window.
“No photos, no photos,” one of the young men shouted.
Martins said: “We were forced to take a side-road to get away from the angry mob. We made a U-turn where this dirt road ended and had no choice but to drive past the crowd again. As we were doing so at speed, another stone smashed the back window of our car.”
EFF spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi could not be reached for comment.
http://rekordcenturion.co.za/38546/reporters-attacked-angry-mob/
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