Held hostage with an axe and beaten by a group of men, a soldier turned subsistence farmer has relived the horror which unfolded in his Braakenfontein Oos home in the Rocklands area.
A community leader says that four years of empty promises lie behind violent service delivery protests in Rocklands that saw 6km of electricity infrastructure destroyed. But he has distanced the community from a violent attack on a farm and stock theft in the area.
On Wednesday, 28 July a protest along Rocklands Road in Nelson Mandela Bay by residents of Bobani Village led to 6km of power infrastructure being destroyed. A farm was attacked while police watched and a road that is essential to the agricultural sector was shut down. The farming community is.