Angry Langebaan residents are demanding the arrest of Springbok rugby player Eben Etzebeth and those involved in an alleged racism incident that has rocked the area.
On Saturday, about 100 members of the community marched to the police station to hand over a memorandum of demands to station commander Captain Christo de Wet, reports the Weekend Argus.
This follows an incident in August where Etzebeth and a group of friends reportedly got into an altercation outside a bar with coloured patrons who were called “hot**ts”.
Etzebeth is currently representing the country at the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
Two separate cases have since been filed with the SA Human Rights Commission, as well as with the police who are probing both matters.
Enver Wilsnach and Siyaad Mogammad Smith are claiming damages of more than R1 million in a case filed at the Equality Court while the police probe cases of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and crimen injuria.
In its memorandum, the community is demanding that the police make arrests in the case and have now given the police five working days to respond to their demands.
Residents say the fact that no arrests have yet been made smacks of racism.
Community activist Sammy Claasen said: “In our anger and pain, we are not against white people but our anger is directed at racism, the kind that happens in Main Road Langebaan and the places (of) social lives.
“There can be no sides taken, people cannot be denied from telling their versions of what happened that day,” he said.
Weekend Argus