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MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Mossel Bay's executive mayor, alderman Harry Levendal is addressing a crowd of approximately 500 people at the taxi rank in Asla Park on the list of demands he received from the protesters.
Demands include, among others, that the land developed for the new cemetery be made available for informal and backyard dwellers for housing; that landless people be given access to land; that municipal services be restored to those who cannot pay for it; that the community be allowed to buy their electricity directly from Eskom; that small business and taxi industries be supported; that unemployment and drug abuse be addressed and that a meeting on the municipal integrated development plan be held in the ward.
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Once this meeting is concluded, the mayor will go to Brandwag where protesters have closed the R328 and also demanded his presence.
In Brandwag, the protesters demand that the municipality deliver municipal services to a community called Riemvasmaak.
The crowd at the taxi rank in Asla Park.
Read previous articles:
- Latest protest update
- Protest update
- Update on unrest
- Update: Protest turns violent
- N2 open in both directions
- Update: Councillors to meet with protest leaders
- N2 weer gesluit
- Update: Protest in Asla Park
- Update: Situation volatile in Asla Park
- Update on unrest
- Alle paaie in Mosselbaai weer oop
- Louis Fourieweg gesluit
- Protesaksie: Mosselbaai-paaie weer oop
- Protest action flares up
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