{"id":200076,"date":"2021-08-30T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/two-more-arrested-for-inciting-july-public-violence\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:43:58","slug":"two-more-arrested-for-inciting-july-public-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/two-more-arrested-for-inciting-july-public-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more arrested for &#8216;inciting&#8217; July public violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202108\/gavel1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Two more suspects are on Monday expected to appear in court for instigating last month\u2019s widely ruinous public violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after members of the Hawks\u2019 Crime against the State, working together with Crime Intelligence, arrested two suspects, aged 35 and 36, for incitement to commit public violence. &nbsp;The two were arrested on Saturday, 28 August 2021, in Gauteng and KZN, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests are the latest in a litany of other apprehensions linked to the July unrest, which saw the two provinces sustain infrastructure losses amounting to billions of rand, and thousands of job losses.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hawks spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale said: \u201cIt is alleged that the KZN suspect, a 35-year-old man, was involved in the incitement of public violence through social media and other platforms during the period of unrest in KwaZulu-Natal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mogale said as a result of the incitement, Brookside Mall in Pietermaritzburg was broken into and criminal activities such as the theft of goods occurred.&nbsp;The mall was also set alight.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is expected to appear in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Gauteng suspect, who is a 36-year-old woman who operated as Sphithiphithi Evaluator @ African Soil, with a followership of 59 900 people, was also arrested on Saturday during a search and seizure operation in Leondale, which resulted in the&nbsp;confiscation of exhibits for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect is expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday on charges of incitement to commit public violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations against those who incite, instigate or conspire with others to commit crime, including public violence, are continuing,\u201d said Mogale. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more suspects are on Monday expected to appear in court for instigating last month\u2019s widely ruinous public violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. 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