2013-10-18 21:42
(Nielen de Klerk, News24)
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Johannesburg – Service delivery protests in Missionvale,
Port Elizabeth, and Cookhouse, near Cradock, were under control on Friday
afternoon, Eastern Cape police said.
“Earlier this morning [residents] were throwing stones
at police,” said police spokesperson Alwin Labans said.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse them.
“The situation is under control,” he said
around 15:00.
They burnt tyres and blocked roads to express their
dissatisfaction with the rate of housing delivery and other services.
No one had been arrested, Labans said.
In a separate protest, residents of Cookhouse set a
municipal building alight on Thursday around 21:00, said spokesperson Stefanie
Smith.
“About… 600 dissatisfied community members took to
the streets and started stoning the municipality building to express their
alleged dissatisfaction [with municipal services].”
The protesters later set the building alight, set fire to
a tractor tyre under a railway bridge on the R63, which disrupted traffic, and
stoned a police car.
“Today everything is under control. Local police are
monitoring the situation,” Smith said.
A case of public violence was being investigated, but no
one had been arrested.
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