Eight buses torched at Motherwell depot during service delivery protest The police s Priscilla Naidu said that no arrests had been made. Picture: SAPS Facebook page.
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CAPE TOWN - A service delivery protest in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape has resulted in the torching of eight buses.
The vehicles were set alight at a depot in Motherwell on Wednesday night.
Police said that no injuries were sustained.
The estimated value of the buses was R12 million and a malicious damage to property case was being investigated.
The police s Priscilla Naidu said that no arrests had been made.
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GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO NEWS - “The recent severe wildfire disaster that caused incalculable damage to Cape Town’s Rhodes Memorial, the historical Mostert’s Mill and the University of Cape Town and surrounding properties could hardly be ascribed to climate change as the cause thereof was clearly due to human negligence, deliberate or not.