A protest by about 100 people blocked one of of Cape Town’s main arteries on Saturday.
Police closed Prince George Drive between Capricorn Park and Steenberg when the protesters — many of them women and children — blocked the road with rocks and burning tyres.
The protest centred on the alleged non-payment of data capturers working for the City of Cape Town’s Expanded Public Works Programme.
Some residents of Uitsig Peninsula — who were under the wrong impression that the protest was over land — sparked a shouting match with protesters when they tried to move rocks and burning debris from the road.
There were no injuries during the protest‚ which ended at noon with riot police advancing and protesters retreating into Vrygrond.