Rubber bullets versus stones at Blikkiesdorp protest

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After protesters blocked the corner of Symphony Way and Hindle Road with burning tyres in Delft, Cape Town, on Friday morning, police entered Blikkiesdorp and fired teargas and rubber bullets. The protesters retaliated by throwing stones.

Keano Peters, 15, was hit by rubber bullets on his back and arm. ‘The police entered my yard, shot me with a rubber bullet and said voetsek,’ he said. ‘I didn’t even join the protest. The rubber bullet wound is sore.’

Manuel said the protest was a demand for the City to place the Symphony Way Housing Project under the control of the beneficiaries. In March Blikkiesdorp residents‘We don’t know what happens at the project site and how the construction mafia got involved with the project because the City doesn’t tell us anything,’ she said.

In an unattributed statement to GroundUp, the City’s media office said: ‘It is important to note that the Symphony Way project was stopped following the murder of a City official in 2023 and the continued violence and extortion that have impacted the project, leading to the withdrawal of the contractor and the cancellation of the contract.’

 

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