Residents of Sakhile in Standerton, Mpumalanga are spilling litter on the roads and barricading them with stones as they protest against alleged corruption in the Lekwa Municipality.

The angry residents are demanding that all councillors to resign immediately and the municipality be put under provincial administration. Unconfirmed reports say a house owned by one of the councillors has been set on fire. This comes after two municipal offices were set alight last week.

Phanual Manana, spokesperson of the ANCYL in Lekwa, is among the protesters. Manana says: “People are very angry, and police seem to be ready to shoot following the chaos. Protesters believe that this issue is long overdue”.

Yesterday, the Mpumalanga Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Norman Mokoena acknowledged that there are serious capacity problems in the Municipality.

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