ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.45PM.
KWAZULU-Natal agriculture portfolio committee chairman Maurice Mackenzie on Wednesday night accused the African National Congress of gross political irresponsibility and inciting racial hatred in its response to an anti-poaching operation on a farm in Muden in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Sunday.
This follows an ANC statement calling for the immediate arrest of the white South African National Defence Force members, white farmers and policemen involved in an anti-poaching operation that ended with the posse killing 86 of the hunting dogs and arresting 37 suspected poachers.
The ANC said the provincial police command’s failure to act against the dog killers would cause black people to conclude that they were not protected, and this could “lead to killing of the farmers and razing their farms to the ground. These white farmers have themselves to blame”.
Mackenzie said he will ask the portfolio committee to call upon ANC spokesman Dumisani Makhayeto explain his statement. “If necessary, he will be subpoenaed to do so because this province can do without this wild shooting from the hip, which only exacerbates the already horrific levels of murder and mayhem,” Mackenzie said.