{"id":84707,"date":"2018-09-11T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/84707\/update-top-level-afriforum-representatives-enter-racial-fracas\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:10:16","slug":"update-top-level-afriforum-representatives-enter-racial-fracas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/09\/11\/update-top-level-afriforum-representatives-enter-racial-fracas\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Top level Afriforum representatives enter racial fracas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machadodorp<\/a> erupted in violence on Tuesday with the Highveld Emporium<\/a> being torched and the Indian owner\u2019s home pelted with rocks.<\/p>\n

On Monday an employee of Highveld Emporium<\/a> walked past a tavern in Potgieter Street on his way home after work.<\/p>\n

Also read: UPDATE: Neighbourhood watch guards in custody following racial unrest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources close to the investigation say that the employee was then attacked and assaulted by associates of a man who bought a home from Highveld Emporium<\/a>\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n

The deal however fell through and the businessman obtained an eviction order to get the family out of the home.<\/p>\n

Also read: UPDATE: ‘Whites’ warned to stay indoors by violent protesters, everything calm for now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Upon learning of his employee\u2019s assault, the businessman called for assistance from the neighbourhood watch.<\/p>\n

The two guards arrived and attempted to arrest one of the attackers.<\/p>\n

The community however immediately became violent towards the guards attempting to subdue the suspect until police arrived.<\/p>\n

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On video footage of the incident community members can be seen accosting the two guards in open view of police officers.<\/p>\n

Bail is being refused for both.<\/p>\n

The alleged attacker of the employee has not been arrested despite a case having been opened against him by the victim who has fled Machadodorp to safety after receiving death threats.<\/p>\n

The community has also threatened to harm the two guards and their property, as well as the property and safety of Afriforum<\/a>\u2019s Machadodorp chairman.<\/p>\n

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Afriforum\u2019s legal advisers are presently working on getting the two Afriforum Neighbourhood watch members who were arrested on Monday, out of jail and into safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":43779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1526,13478,13479,13480,10010,13476,12898,10333],"class_list":["post-84707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-afriforum","tag-afriforum-legal-advisers-to-represent-neighbourhood-watch-guards","tag-guards-arrested-during-machadodorp-protests","tag-highveld-emporium","tag-local-news","tag-machadodorp-protests","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["AfriForum","afriforum legal advisers to represent neighbourhood watch guards","guards arrested during machadodorp protests","Highveld emporium","local news","machadodorp protests","middelburg news","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}