PHOENIX community leaders and activists have challenged the findings of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) into the July 2021 unrest, that Indians were racist.
Louis Pillay, a community leader, said he was on the commission’s committee but was never approached for input.
“We were supposed to vet the report before it was released. During the unrest, everyone who lived in Phoenix stood together. My neighbours, who were African, white and coloured, stood side-by-side to guard