Pregnant woman hospitalised after service delivery protest

Pregnant woman hospitalised after service delivery protest

The protest action held by residents of Mzinti in the Nkomazi Local District Municipality turned violent when a pregnant woman had to be hospitalised after shot with a rubber bullet by the police. 

According to media reports, the police force in question did not attempt to help the woman and the residents themselves had to attend to her and transport her to the hospital. 

Residents became increasingly impatient with the municipality’s failure to provide them with water and electricity, resulting in them taking their grievances to the. This protest was a direct result of the inability of the ANC to provide clean potable water to residents.

Incidents of police brutality have been on the increase in Mpumalanga and therefor the DA will call on SAPS commissioner, Thulani Ntombela to investigate the matter as well as write to the Independent Complaints Directorate to look into the matter.