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Angry protesters warn white farmers

In what has the potential to turn into a full-blown racial clash, angry protesters have warned white farmers who stormed a court building and set alight a police vehicle in the Free State that they would be ‘given war if they wanted it’.

The protesters at a march organised by the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the eastern Free State town of Senekal – where hundreds of people marched and gave the police 48 hours to arrest the culprits – accused the farmers of using crime as an excuse to undermine a democratically elected government.

Speaking outside the Senekal police station, Free State ANCYL activist Sizophila Mkhize said the farmers were undermining the ANC government.

“Damaging government property is

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