Operation Dudula members marched to Krugersdorp police station calling for Fred Kekana, the police district commissioner in the West Rand to step down.
Dudula members called for the police station based in Gauteng’s West Rand to be place under administration and that the police and home affairs should stop being reactive when dealing with crime.
Operation Dudula’s Dan Radebe said Kekana should step down as he has failed to deal with crime in the area for years. Radebe said they would continue going back to the police station until Kekana steps down.
“If he can prove that to us, we will take our fight to national. At this moment he is going to take the brunt of the people, he is going to feel it. We are not going to rest. If it means we are coming back next month, we will until he steps down, rapes have been happening for years, that’s why we are calling for this police station to be placed under administration until they get it right,” said Radebe.
The match follows the gang rape of eight women who were part of a crew that was recording a music video at a mine dump in Krugersdorp. At least 14 of the illegal miners who were arrested in Krugersdorp have been charged for the rapes, with the youngest boy aged 15.
The movement blames the police for allowing criminals and illegal miners to operate in abandoned mine dumps.
“These mining dumps and zama-zama’s have been going on for the longest time. The sad thing is that the police knew about it. It is not only that they know about it, they also know the perpetrators and in some cases, they work with them,” said the regional secretary of Operation Dudula Patrick Mokgalusi.
Source: Eyewitness News, The South African, ENCA, ZA News Live, image from Eyewitness News: Boikhutso Ntsoko