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Protest action at the statue of Jan van Riebeeck

Member from the Front National Party and Boere Krisis Aksie group have staged a protest at the statue of Jan van Riebeeck in Adderley Street.

Johan Willemse, a member of Red October, an organization launched by the singer, Sunette Bridges, has chained himself to the statue calling for an end to the vandalism and destruction of monuments.

The group plans to hand over a petition with over 11-thousand signatures to a representative of Parliament calling for, among others, no further violation or vandalising of heritage resources. For more on the story we are joined from Cape Town by SABC reporter Mariska Botha…

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