PF Cadres Attack Soweto Female Trader

Suspected Patriotic Front cadres on Saturday brutally beat up a female Soweto trader with her children and accused them of being UPND cadres.
Speaking at the UPND secretariat, Agness Ndhlovu, who was barely audible because of the swollen face and black eye she sustained from the attack, condemned the violent conduct of the cadres at the market. Her son also sustained a cuts and various swellings on his body for trying to protect his mother from the attackers. “I have been a marketeer for 30 years and my two sons help me. One of them is actually a university student.
I arrived as usual in the morning, offloaded my tomatoes from the truck and then Bright Mumba, the Soweto PF chairman, told me to pack up and go saying he was banning me,” she explained. Ndhlovu said she asked Mumba why he was stopping her from trading and instead of responding to her query, he shouted ‘order!’ and within seconds, a group of about 12 men begun to destroy her property. Afterwards, Ndhlovu said one of the men tripped her from behind, causing her to fall in a pool of mud. She said the man punched her face and dragged her through the mud as passers-by merely watched until her sons came to her aid.
“My sons arrived and these cadres turned and now started to beat my sons with planks. My children were badly beaten and these guys picked up one of my boys and drove off with him,” she said amidst sobs. Ndhlovu said Mumba and his group took one of her sons to the police station and dressed him in a UPND T-shirt and accused him of attacking people at Soweto market.
“But the police refused to take him into custody and handed him back to these thugs and they continued to beat my son and brought him to me with a deep cut on his head,” narrated Ndhlovu.