Looting, bullets and a volley of angry words as protests ravage Cape Town

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Looting, bullets and a volley of angry words as protests ravage Cape Town
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KhayelitshaShutdown 'We are not going to vote! No one must come and ask us to vote for them, they don’t listen to us.'

There were no reports of deaths on Thursday afternoon, according to Winde, but he said the situation remained volatile.

"If we have a look at a report on how often our public order police are called in, they were called in 300 times since January. And we specifically saw in the past month protests really starting to escalate and now, in the first few days of this month, we can see much further escalation," he said. Protests affected the economy and many people were prevented from going to work."We have invasions of provincial land, city land and Sanral land. Here in Lwandle it's a big land issue.

"It starts with policy uncertainty at national level and with the election now, quite frankly, we need to start with those political leaders stoking this up. It is totally unacceptable.He said there was video and photographic footage of the political leaders - but he would not name them.

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