On Thursday night‚ more stores were looted across the town as police tried in earnest to quell the fires and remove barricades. ANC provincial leaders‚ as well as their counterparts in the alliance‚ gathered at Heritage House for the meeting with Ramaphosa.
Protest leaders‚ who call themselves the Revolutionary Council‚ said they called off protests on Friday hoping for the president to fire Mahumapelo.
The situation in the town remained tense while some big retailers opened for business.
Queues in the local OK supermarket and Spar winded around the stores as locals stocked up on grocery items. Stores were closed around the town for the last two days as violent protest brought the town to a standstill.