Affrontement à Rabie Ridge en Afrique du Sud – mars 2010

42 held for violent protest

news24.com

2010-03-15

Johannesburg – Forty two people were arrested in Rabie Ridge, east of Johannesburg on Monday, when a protest against lack of service delivery turned violent, police said.

Sergeant Tsholofelo Madumo said a crowd of about 3 000 people became unruly and pelted police vans with stones, damaging some of the vehicles.

« The police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, 32 men and 10 women were arrested for public violence, » she said.

« We managed to restore order and the area is calm. »

Residents of Kanana, Phomolong and Rabie Ridge took to the streets in the early hours of the morning protesting against poor housing. They wanted to be allocated RDP houses.

Madumo said irate residents started to blocked several roads with burning tyres and stones at 03:00.

The affected roads included Modderfontein, Mayibuye and Republic.

Rabie Ridge residents enraged by broken promises

eyewitnessnews.co.za

Gia Nicolaides | 16 mars 2010

Rabie Ridge residents on Monday lashed out at the ANC for making them wait more than 16 years for proper houses.

Police were forced to open fire with rubber bullets after angry protesters barricaded roads in the area on Monday morning.

It took authorities hours to remove burning tyres and rocks from the roads near Tembisa but residents continued barricading streets and threw rocks at police who tried to disperse them.

Cops opened fire with rubber bullets several times.

Residents were furious.

“The ANC is failing us and a lot of promises have been made,” said an angry resident.

“We have been suffering for such a long time because of poor service delivery,” said another.

Police will continue monitoring the situation.

Les banlieues de Johannesburg s’embrasent à J-100 du mondial

fr.euronews.net

16/03

A Rabie Ridge, un bidonville situé à 60km de la capitale sud-africaine, près de 600 personnes ont manifesté lundi leur colère à l‘égard du pouvoir. Trop de pauvreté, pas assez d’aides, ils reprochent au Président Zuma de ne pas tenir ses promesses.

Devant la colère des manifestants, la police a répliqué par des tirs de balles en caoutchouc. Ce qui ne contribue pas à calmer les esprits.

“Les hommes politiques font des promesses, ils mentent. Ils viennent ici, disent qu’ils vont tout changer. Ils disent ‘votez pour moi et je changerai tout’. Mais après ils ne font rien et se contentent de continuer à promettre”, s’insurge un jeune manifestant.

La colère de la population sud-africaine ne se cantonne pas à ce bidonville. Plusieurs manifestations, dont un mouvement de chauffeurs de taxis, ont également eu lieu. De quoi inquiéter les autorités à quelques mois du mondial de football.