A Somali shop owner watched helplessly as residents looted his shop and disappeared into shacks with crates packed with their loot‚ including baby diapers‚ in the Gomorrah informal settlement in Pretoria West. What started as a service delivery protest early on Wednesday morning turned into a raid on foreign-owned shops in the area‚ with some trying in vain to break open a steel shipping container shop which the owner had locked from inside.This happened in the impenetrable settlement away from public order police watching over another group manning burning debris and tyres barricading the R55 towards the Daspoort tunnel.Residents‚ relocated from Atteridgeville to Daspoort in 2012 by the Tshwane municipality‚ said they were angered by the municipality's failure to honour its promise of serviced stands and houses.Mpho Mashishi‚ Economic Freedom Fighters' ward chairperson‚ said residents lived in unbearable conditions without proper roads‚ sanitation and electricity.He however said the residents’ anger was ignited by a lack of buses to take their children to school in surrounding areas.“Children have not been to school this week because there were no buses. There are schools nearby but our children are excluded because the schools' medium of instruction is Afrikaans. This must stop so that our children are not forced to rely on transport to go to school‚” he said.DA ward 55 councillor Frik van Wyk blamed the EFF for the violence‚ saying though the residents lived in appalling conditions‚ they had been patient with the municipality.“It is the EFF. It is not the DA or ANC. There are people from the DA because this is a DA ward but they have been forced to join in‚” he said.Van Wyk said he had appealed to the council many times to provide services as the area was a health risk‚ with rubbish everywhere.Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa's spokesperson condemned the violence‚ saying the protest was “fuelled and fanned by opportunistic elements” intent on casting aspersions on the commitment to improve living conditions in the area.“We condemn the violent protest as witnessed and reiterate that we remain open for engagement with our communities in finding long term solutions to their challenges‚” he said.He added that the scholar transport issue‚ which he said was caused by the illegal municipal bus strike last week‚ would be solved with an appointment of a service provider to provide scholar transport to the community...