POLICE fired rubber bullets and used teargas to disperse protesters in Walmer early yesterday.
The township residents, protesting against slow service delivery, blocked traffic in 9th Avenue, Victoria Drive and Heugh Road with burning tyres.
The protest, which started at about 4am, was organised by G-West area residents.
Zukiswa Sinto, who has lived in G-West since 1989, said none of the promises made over the years about the provision of houses and eradication of the bucket toilet system had been kept.
“G-West has not changed. The shacks we occupy still get flooded when it rains,” Sinto said, adding that the municipality ignored their grievances.
“Sometimes the buckets and the refuse are not picked up for weeks. At the moment, we do not have water in the taps and have to travel to other areas for water, where we stand in long queues.”
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