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Original Post Date: 2008-04-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Police and demonstrators have clashed, leaving rubber-bullet casings and debris littering the streets at an informal settlement near Lenasia, south of Joburg.
Thirty residents of Hospital Hill settlement, near Lenasia South, were arrested after the house of the local councillor was set on fire after a meeting on service delivery on Sunday.
Residents had gathered early in the morning to hear the councillor give them a progress report on service delivery issues when tempers flared.
The group were unhappy with the delays in the provision of housing, electricity, water and sanitary facilities.
| ‘Police returned to the settlement with reinforcements to disperse the crowd’ |
Police, who had escorted the councillor into the area for the meeting, hastily withdrew him when residents started getting disruptive. The crowd dispersed but later gathered on their own to continue the meeting, and police were alerted.
The unhappy residents have been living in the informal settlement for more than 20 years. At the last count there were at least 3 200 shacks in the area, housing four to five people per corrugated iron home.
Police returned to the settlement with reinforcements to disperse the crowd, which had regrouped deep in the settlement.
Rocks, broken glass, rubbish bags and tree branches littered roads after police had dispersed the protesters.
Some cement manhole covers had been broken and large holes were left exposed on the sides of the road.
Groups of between six and eight police officers continued to patrol the settlement late on Sunday as tensions ran high.
They occasionally stopped residents to question and search them.
The police’s Director Ronnie Rajin said: “After the crowd scattered, they went to the councillor’s house and set it on fire.”
He added that 30 people had been arrested for public disturbance, damage to public property and assault.
A resident from the area said money was being spent to tar roads in Lenasia South when it could have been used to build houses for residents of the informal settlement.
“I don’t blame them one bit. I also would have been angry if empty promises were made to me,” he said.