A bus was apparently petrol bombed in Umgeni, KwaZulu-Natal. The N2 on ramp N and S closed from the Umgeni side by metro police.
Rioting began yesterday and continued throughout the day.The violence started when municipality acted against the 200 new shacks on municipal land. A Municipal van was torched.
Intermittent stoning of vehicles continued throughout the night.
At approximately 5 a.m. this morning a truck was torched.
The road reopened mid-morning, but no long afterwards a bus was torched and forced the roads to be closed again.
It would be wise to avoid the area. The SABC do not report on protests happening around the country.
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