N2 protest remains 'volatile'
10/09/2007 10:29  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - The situation was still "volatile" mid-morning Monday at the scene of a housing protest which earlier shut down both carriageways of the N2, one of the major arteries leading into Cape Town, a city official said.

Cape Town traffic services officer Searle Johannes said residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement set up barricades of burning tyres and logs before dawn.

Police closed off both the ingoing and outgoing carriageways of the highway alongside the settlement just after 04:00, and reopened them at about 07:30.

However they were closed again when the protesters regrouped, and shortly before 10:00, the eastbound lane was still shut, Johannes said.

Johannes said the protesters set a Blue Ribbon bakery delivery truck on fire after emptying it of its bread.

Th protesters were also throwing stones, and several metro police and traffic vehicles, and SA Police vehicles, were damaged.

The protesters had also damaged a number of homes under construction on the N2 Gateway housing project.

The protesters are objecting to their planned relocation from the area to temporary houses at Delft to make way for the Gateway project, which is alongside Joe Slovo.

- SAPA

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