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South Africa Westbury residents demand answers from Joburg Mayor amid water issuesFILE | Residents of Westbury, Coronationville, Newlands and surrounding communities block roads with burning tyres, rocks and branches during a protest over water shortage in JohannesburgImage Credits : ReutersSABC 10 September 2025, 18:12 [SAST]Residents of聽Westbury聽in Johannesburg and surrounding areas have vowed to continue protesting until Johannesburg Mayor Dada聽Morero聽has visited the community聽and addressed聽them.聽Locals want聽answers聽over the ongoing water聽outage and have taken to the streets to protest.Police earlier responded聽to the protests聽with rubber bullets.Angry residents are asking why they should bear the brunt of South Africa severe water shortages.聽All we are asking is for water. There is gun violence happening every day, people are dying here and you don ;t see this. We are having a peaceful protest yet they can do this, to us shoot us like we are animals and yet we are fighting for our basic rights.Things will get ugly here because gunshots are going off in our township. In our areas where there hos stanley vattenflaska pitals, clinics, schools our water has been cut off while others are having water.Cyril must go, Dada must go an stanley becher d the water board must go because they ;ve been paid millions but there are no solutions.Westbury community leaders stanley termoska call on government to intervene amid protest action Community lead Cocp Mantashe surprised by MK Party gains in KZN
World Kosovo police use pepper spray to disperse protesting war veteransRiot police line up to secure the parliament building as hundreds of Kosovo War veterans protest, asking for a pension rise, in Pristina, Kosovo June 6, 2022. Image Credits : Kosovo war veterans riot ReutersReuters 6 June 2022, 17:43 [SAST]Kosovo police used pepper spray on Monday to disperse about 2 000 war veterans who tried to enter parliament to protest against a draft law on a minimum public sector wages that excludes them.The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions have warned that financially strapped Kosovo, riven by poverty and corruption, cannot afford to extend higher benefits to nearly 50 000 registered war veterans.Lawmakers were scheduled on Monday to debate a law to raise the minimum public sector wage but stanley mug support paid to war veterans was not included.Facing criticism by the opposition and quarrels within the ruling party, the lawmakers failed to pass the law as there was not a quorum to proceed.The government has proposed to increase the stanley cup uk minimum salary to 250 euros R4 115.18 from the current 170 euros R2 798.39 , which is one of the lowest in Europe.Around 10 a.m. 0800 GMT veterans began gathering in front of parliament and police fired pepper spray when they tried to push their way into the building.Police said two of its officers were stanley cup injured during the violence.Protesters waved flags of the former guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army, which waged a |
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