Bekkersdal
Gauteng police deploy in protest-hit areas to 'maintain law and order'
Residents in these areas have been protesting over service delivery issues including housing, water and electricity as well as basic infrastructure at schools...
Bekkersdal residents in the West Rand took to the streets to call for electricity, water, adequate sewerage and school maintenance in the area.
Police fired rubber bullets at protesters during Wednesday's demonstrations and subsequent looting in the area.
Residents are calling for electricity, water, adequate sewerage and school maintenance in the area.
According to police, their mother was sleeping in a separate room with her youngest child when the fire erupted.
Following the deaths of three children in a shack fire in Bekkersdal, residents say the lack of service delivery in the area has put their lives in danger.
The children, aged between two and 11, were sleeping when the fire broke out overnight at their home in the Spooktown informal settlement.
Three young children were killed in Bekkersdal after their shack home caught fire last night. The community is still in shock and has appealed to government to provide proper housing.
Community members say the lack of proper housing and basic service delivery in the area has put their lives in danger.
Paramedics say the 10-month-old baby has suffered second-degree burns.
Pikitup will help to clean up Bekkersdal on the West Rand in the wake of recent service delivery protests.
The Gauteng government is in talks with Eskom to ensure informal settlements have access to electricity.
Residents of Bekkersdal ran riot as they vandalised, stripped & looted the municipal office and a nearby foreign shop.
At least three shops were looted and eight people arrested in the township on Friday.
Protesters are demanding that the Westonaria Municipality be placed under administration.
Bekkersdal rebuild & upgrade begins today with an improvement in its sewage system& land for a new school.
David Makhura assured Bekkersdal residents that govt will invest in local enterprises.
Gwede Mantashe saus the ANC is committed to resolving problems faced by communities.
The police’s Kay Makhubela said the woman was reported missing in April in Protea Glen, Soweto.