Cape Town - Protesters blockading the N2 near the Borcherds
Quarry Road turn-off caused a six car pile-up on Friday morning.
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City of Cape Town spokesperson JP Smith expressed his ire,
describing those protesting as being "opportunists" and adding that
the accident as a result of the protests showed that this "nonsense has
gone too far".
"It really annoys me because the people who have been
placed in harm's way have nothing to do with the dispute," he said.
"It is one thing to have a protest and then quite
another to cause an accident, and then a completely separate thing to
capitalise on the accident and use the time to drag more tyres into the
road," he said.
Smith said that Metro Police officers had been deployed to
monitor the situation overnight and that more policemen would be stationed at
the flashpoint on Friday.
"The road now has been reopened and the damaged
vehicles have been attended to," he said.
