AlexTotalShutdown: Alex protesters: Govt has forgotten about us
JOHANNESBURG - Protesting Alexandra residents demanding better service delivery say they feel that the government has forgotten about them.
On Wednesday morning, community members barricaded serval roads in and around the township with burning tyres and rocks.— EWN Reporter April 3, 2019 “Government has forgotten about us, it’s like a dead place here. Everything needs to be fixed.”— EWN Reporter April 3, 2019“There are other people who give foreigners houses and South Africans, we don’t have houses,” he said.
More tyres were brought in the township and residents said they would not to back down until they got answers from the City of Johannesburg.
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