Mpumalanga

Sowetan: Residents threaten to boycott elections

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http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/03/31/residents-threaten-to-boycott-elections

Residents threaten to boycott elections
31-Mar-2011 | Alfred Moselakgomo

"This government is playing with us. Since they dug foundations for RDP houses more than a year ago they have not come back to us," said Nurse Motha of Donkerhoek.

She lives in a one-roomed mud house next to her roofless RDP structure.

"This incomplete house is a home to my chickens while my family and I sleep in a mud house," she said.

M&G: Profile of a town on fire

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http://mg.co.za/article/2011-02-28-profile-of-a-town-on-fire

Profile of a town on fire
KWANELE SOSIBO

The fear of police brutality is so tangible in Ermelo's Wesselton township that it is hard to separate it from the blanket of coal fumes that floats in the quiet night air.

Paranoia, too, is palpable as we talk to a group of youths in a tavern in Phumula, near the epicentre of recent rioting. As they regale us with their stories, which are repeated during our stay in Ermelo, they take turns in heading to the door, making sure that no police are inching their way towards the nondescript drinking hole.

IOL: 61 arrested in Mpumalanga protest

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100323144910819C590311

61 arrested in Mpumalanga protest
March 23 2010 at 06:07PM

Sixty-one people have been arrested for public violence during service delivery protests in Mpumalanga over the long weekend, police said on Tuesday.

Captain Leonard Hlathi said 29 people were arrested in Leslie near Secunda after a municipal building and other property were burnt down.

Another 32 were arrested in Ogies.

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