Protesters blocked roads and stoned cars in Cape Town on Monday morning. City of Cape Town traffic services spokesperson Richard Coleman said PG Drive was closed in both directions between Military Road and Sonnet Way. Coleman said protest action had also been reported in Khayelitsha. Mew Way Road was closed in both directions between Pama..
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Chaos is once again the order of the day in Cape Town – Protesters stone cars, block roads
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SANDF Deployment does not stop gang violence in Western Cape – ANC regime does not have ability to take control over crime
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Police with smoke grenades trying to intimidate protesters and gang groups are doing nothing and just angering protesters, says a resident of the Bishop Lavis area in the Western Cape. Then rubber bullets were used, and the gangs laughed at the police and fired back with live ammunition. Then the army soldiers and the hope..
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Residents from 13 communities on the Cape Flats, plan to shut down the entrances and exits of their communities to highlight the shortage of affordable housing opportunities in Cape Town
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The Parkwood area was prominent in the news in May when a number of protests were staged over the lack of housing, a year after backyard dwellers had taken over vacant bits of land off Prince George Drive – ‘We want the land on the other side of the railway line, we want to go..
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21 schools across Cape Town shut down and now health services are also being afflicted due to protests
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A total of 21 schools across the Cape have been closed as a result of two separate protests in Lwandle, Somerset West and in Khayelitsha. A further eight schools are being monitored because of the disruptions, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has confirmed. The department’s Jessica Shelver says many learners from Lwandle and Khayelitsha,..
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Police deployed to Saldanha bay following protests – From investigations it seems that these protests are being fueled by outsiders
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Several buildings, including the Diazville Community Hall, its office and a private residence, were torched during violent demonstrations on Thursday morning. The area’s community health clinic was also torched. Police say a group of about 5,000 people took to the streets in protest, burning tyres and pelting stones at officers. An office at the Tabakbaai..
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Onwettige protesaksies deur barbare aan Weskus veroorsaak ontwrigting en rig baie skade aan
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‘n Onwettige protesaksie, al weer kwansuis oor “dienslewering” het Dinsdag oggend 13 Oktober 2018, baie skade en ontwrigting veroorsaak op Vredenburg aan die Weskus. Daar was berigte van motoriste wat uit hulle motors gepluk en geïntimideer is, van geboue wat aan die brand gesteek is en ruite wat uitgegooi is. Besighede moes ook sluit in..
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WATCH | This is not a civilization – Illegal march in Stellenbosch turns out violent, 27 arrested
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Twenty-seven people were arrested for public violence and malicious damage to property after an illegal march in Stellenbosch on Monday. About 60 protesters marched from the Stellenbosch Magistrate’s Court in Mark Street to Plein Street after community leaders appeared in court. “According to reports, the protesters threw garbage in front of a municipal building,” police..
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Onwettige Besetters dreig om Stellenbosch tot stilstand te bring
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’n Uitsettingsbevel om beweerde onwettige grond besetters van ’n stuk grond wat in private besit is te laat veryder is Donderdag in die Wes-Kaapse hooggeregshof, uitgestel. Die saak teen die gemeenskapslede van Khayamandi in Stellenbosch naby Kaapstad sal weer 6 November hervat. Honderde inwoners het weereens by die hof opgedaag om te betoog teen hul..
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Inwoners van houtbaai en polisie raak haaks tydens klopjag
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Houtbaai was in rep en roer na ‘n grootskaalse polisie klopjag in die area. Inwoners het fakkels afgevuur en strate versper met brandende bande. Onwettige vissermanne is in die klopjag gearresteer. Die toestand in die dorp bly gespanne nadat daar enkele weke gelede ook gewelddadige betogings was en die polisie nie by magte was om..
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Geen wet en orde in Kaapstad na oproerige betogers kantore afbrand in Houtbaai
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Betogers in Houtbaai, Kaapstad, het Sondag die departement van landbou, bosbou en visserye (DAFF) se kantoor in die hawe aan die brand gesteek en ’n private woning glo ook met klippe bestook. Wayne Dyason van die Kaapse-metroraad se wetstoepassingsafdeling, het kort voor 13:00 bevestig dat ongeveer 300 mense dié gebou aan die brand gesteek het…
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