Accounts of racial tension, assaults and killings of Africans, allegedly at the hands of Indian people in Phoenix, were aired during day 2 of the investigative hearing by the SA Human Rights Commission into civil unrest in July.
“This has really angered the community who were questioning Cele for not visiting the black community, but he went to Phoenix,” he said.
“Cele had told us that he had not really been briefed earlier and that was why he had gone to Phoenix. The community told him that they wanted an investigation into the deaths of people at the hands of Phoenix residents,” Biyela said. Biyela also told the commission he had heard harrowing stories of how Indian people resorted to ill-treating their black workers after the riots in Phoenix.
his attackers had snatched his Versace sunglasses and he was treated for head wounds at the hospital.Ubuntu Forum — comprising various NGOs and residents of the Phoenix area and formed in the aftermath of the violence — also gave an account of events in Phoenix.
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