Arts and Culture wants arrests after Ixopo library torched
The provincial Arts and Culture authorities say police have been told to leave no stone unturned, as they hunt for those behind the torching of a new library in Ixopo.
Police say the mobile community library in the Nokweja location, was burned to the ground during a protest on Sunday.
Arts and Culture spokesperson Mack Makhatini says they have been told community members had a disagreement with their local ward councillor, resulting in the protest.
Makhatini says the library - which had already cost the department almost R2 million - was due to be opened at the end of this month.
“We had already put about R1.9 million into the library,” he says, “We have agreed, as a department, that we are going to make sure whoever did this, is arrested”.