Enraged KZN community torches industrial hub

08 March 2016 - 02:49
By Nompumelelo Magwaza

Protesting community members wreaked havoc yesterday in KwaSithebe, the economic hub of Mandeni in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The protesters blockaded roads and set fire to four factories, a truck, offices, five containers and two vehicles over the axing of a chief and inclusion of an ANC councillor as a candidate for the upcoming local government poll.

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