The mob was baying for blood. Not just any blood – black blood. And they found it. A young man was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time on Monday as pitched street battles raged in the Grabouw suburb of Pineview.
A rumour spread like wildfire: “the blacks” wanted to burn down the nearby high school, attended mainly by coloured pupils from the community. And the mob was determined to defend this school by force.
The violence escalated after three classrooms were vandalised at Groenberg Secondary, where protesters tried to set alight a textbook storeroom. Coloured residents blamed their black neighbours.
This, overcrowding at a predominantly black school and a coming by-election have all been cited by residents as reasons for the situation coming to a head on Monday.
Armed with golf clubs, sticks, planks, hockey sticks, steel rods – anything – coloured residents roamed the streets hunting for prey.
Then this young man was spotted – not part of any group of protesters, but black.
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