Angry residents torch home of Ngwathe mayor’s family
A group of residents have torched the home of the parents of Ngwathe Local Municipality Mayor Victoria De Beer-Mthombeni in Skonkenville in the Free State.
The home was attacked on Monday, says the provincial department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
"We will receive reports as to the safety of the parents of the executive mayor, but at the moment it doesn't seem as if anybody has been hurt. The most regrettable and despicable thing is that the home of the (parents of) executive mayor has been torched,” says the department’s spokesperson Sello Dithebe.
Dithebe says residents were complaining about a shortage of water supplied in the hours before the attack on the house.
"The residents, we are told that they were complaining about the water supply. We all know and this we have seen in Cape Town that when there is load shedding it is difficult to well-nigh impossible for the pumps to keep on purifying water because they demand a great amount of electricity to turn.
"Although other people are saying there is underlying issues, something we do not want to get in, like political motives."
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