Police ignore high court order

MOKOPANE - “I will rather face contempt of court than execute the court order,” provincial head of legal services at the SAPS, Maj.Gen. Steven Mbhalati allegedly told Mogalakwena Municipality’s Irene de Villiers on Tuesday.
This followed discussions on how police were going to execute a fifth court order to remove ANC members who have illegally occupied the municipality for more than three weeks.
In this time no municipal services had been rendered and municipal workers have been waiting outside the municipal premises for a legal resolution to the deadlock.
The Mogalakwena Residents Association (MRA) has now threatened to take more drastic action. At a press conference last week the organisation told the media the residents of Mokopane may have to remove the unwanted occupiers with their own hands, seeing as the police shows no intention of upholding the order of the law.

Provincial head of legal services at the SAPS Maj.Gen Steven Mbhalati  and the Mogalakwena Municipality’s Irene de Villiers discussed the order to remove Thlalefi Mashemaite and his colleagues for before Mbhalati indicated that he wouldn't execute the court order.