Protest plunges Khayelitsha hospital into crisis, disrupting transport for patients and staff

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A protest over water bills in Cape Town's largest township prevented hospital staff reporting for work on Thursday and meant ambulances could respond only to life-threatening emergencies.

Community safety MEC Alan Winde, the DA's Western Cape premier candidate, has called for the arrest of the protest instigators, who also stopped buses running in Khayelitsha.

"The names and contact details of the organisers of this action have been sent to me by the community," said Winde, adding that he had passed them on to the police. "With less than a month to go to the election, violent and narrow-minded political parties are trying every desperate trick in the book to disrupt our communities. What they are doing, however, is hurting the very people they are purporting to serve," said Winde.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane described protests around the country on Thursday as a desperate attempt by the ANC to tarnish his party and"render DA-run cities ungovernable" in order to"shift attention away from its failure in government over the past 25 years". Maimane said the governing party"has become a movement that embodies undemocratic behaviour - from burning books to burning our communities. They have run out of ideas, and these violent protests are proof of this."

 

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