Police will continue to monitor several areas in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg Monday evening, following a violent service delivery protest over basic services.
Residents barricaded the Golden Highway and provincial road with burning tyres and rocks, diverting peak hour traffic.
It is not the first of such marches in the area where residents are demanding better services. And now the community has run out of patience.
They also want the local councillor out over a number of grievances including land, housing and electricity.
SA National Civic Organisation’s Alfred Mnxunya says: “We are asking the office of Mashaba and the government of the Democratic Alliance (DA) to take us seriously the people of ward 120. This is our third march over the same issues. If they do not respond to this march we will render this ward ungovernable.”
Residents say to see sewerage overflowing on the streets is a normal sight.
Hospital Hill resident Tshepiso Sello is hoping that in the next seven days, they will get satisfactory response to their plight.
If they don’t, she says they will have no choice but to be back on the streets.
