Five people were arrested following a violent protest in Oukasie, near Brits, in the North West province on Tuesday.
Running battles ensued between police, a private security company and a mob of angry shack dwellers who were demanding that 13 informal settlements be supplied with basic municipal services.
Protesters pelted the police and security guards with stones fired from slingshots and hurled petrol bombs while using sheets of corrugated iron as shields. Police in turn fired rubber bullets to repel the incensed crowd. On Monday, residents of Corrie Sanders informal settlement in Oukasie – named after late heavyweight boxer Cornelius Johannes “Corrie” Sanders – marched to the municipality demanding answers to the memorandum.
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