R102 closed by Ntshawini protestors

The R102 was closed to traffic on Tuesday afternoon after Ntshawini residents went on a riot. Angry residents blocked the road with burning tyres and skips, demanding speed humps on the notoriously dangerous road. Their protest follows the death of a woman, who was knocked over by a truck on Monday. A resident who did not want to be named for fear of intimidation said the KwaDukuza municipality should do something about the issue. “The woman was running for a taxi. If the road had speed humps she would not have died,” said the woman. The municipality constructed humps in the area around 2010, which were then flattened during recent construction.

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