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Sanco to protest at Coligny court


The SA National Civics Organisation said it will be holding a protest at the Coligny Magistrate's Court on Monday.

That's where farmers, Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte are applying for bail.

The two are accused of killing Coligny teenager, Matlhamola Mosweu, who died after falling off a bakkie driven by them after they accused him of stealling sunflowers.

The farmers reportedly told police that he had fallen off the back of the bakkie.

Speaking at Mosewu's funeral on Sunday, Sanco provincial secretary, Packet Seaketso, said Sanco would protest at the Coligny Magistrate’s Court on Monday to oppose bail being granted to the accused.

South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) North West chairman Mxolosi Bomvana said non-racist whites should be seen taking action against racism. “We must march together to fight racism. God has given men life but [in this case] it is not God who has taken life, it is men,” he said.

He also called on community members not to destroyed schools and clinics during protests. Mosweu, a grade six pupil at Haakboslaagte Primary School, was buried on Sunday in Coligny. Over 1000 people attended the funeral.


North West Premier, Supra Mahumapelo, said that while he was not a racist, there's no confusion about who had caused Mosewu's death.


“There is no confusion on whose hands did Matlhomola lose his life. He was in the hands of South Africans who are Afrikaners in Coligny. The courts must look on how he was killed,” he said at Mosweu’s funeral service in the Scotland informal settlement in Coligny.


“I am not a racist. I had problems with white superiority. If they are not racist, why do they signed a white all petition calling for the release of the accused on bail. Not [all] whites are racist, let whites who are not racist join us when we march against racism…,” Mahumapelo said.