Riots in the township
On Friday 15 June, tension over housing issues in the Lankgewag (“having waited long”) area of Smutsville in Sedgefield reached breaking point as close to a thousand residents took to the streets in a stand-off with Southern Cape POP members. The Lankgewag community had started burning objects in the street the previous night due to the municipality not meeting with them as promised. Other communities in the area joined the action after Smutsville, they say, did not appear on the latest municipal budget.
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