By Kim Saulse
23 November 2009
Hout Bay police have beefed up patrols in the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement after local residents threatened and intimidated their foreign neighbours living in the Biko Street block.
This comes after police arrested three Malawian nationals on Saturday night who allegedly raped a three year old girl from the area.
Community members allege that the one of the suspects raped the little girl while the other two watched.
An angry mob broke down the shack of the suspects, while threatening other foreign nationals to leave the area as soon as possible. By late last night most foreigners in Biko street had left the area.
Meanwhile 26 people are expected to appear in the De Doorns Magistrate Court today in connection with the xenophobic violence that flared up in the area last week.
More than 3 000 people, mostly Zimbabweans evacuated shacks in De Doorns after locals claimed they were robbing them of jobs on farms in the area.
Station Commissioner Desmond van der Westhuizen says 22 suspects will be charged with public violence while four others will be charged with theft.
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