With less than four weeks to go before the premier Eastern Cape horse race event of the year, the Berlin November, its organisers woke up to a vandalised race course.
Organiser Luthando Bara told the Daily Dispatch that he would act to defend the event. He also assured the people that come November 24 there would be a horse race.
Bara blamed the vandalism on elements within the Economic Freedom Fighters saying: “The EFF was there at the track…and central to their conversation was them stating their intention to stop the Berlin November.”
Contacted on Thursday morning, provincial chairman Yazini Tetyana said the EFF in the region was not involved in the vandalism that saw a transformer burnt to the ground , the storm water bridge broken down and walkways destroyed. “We do not destroy properties. We do not hide our protests therefore if it was us it would have been in broad daylight because the plight of those people is genuine and therefore would need to be addressed head on,” said Tetyana.
The vandalism comes weeks after the EFF’s march to the race track with 50 supporters from BCM’s ward 45 who claim the land on which the race event is held, is theirs...