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Pretoria News 9/4/2008

Three-month-old baby dies in shack fire

Staring blankly at his hands, Mamelodi resident Matthew Skosana shakes his head, trying desperately to understand why he couldn't save three-month-old Lebogang Mashido from burning to death in a shack fire.

The fire left Lebogang's brother, Blessing, 2, and sister, Mmatsjie, 3, seriously injured in Pretoria Academic Hospital.

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June 19 2007 at 10:27AM

Hundreds of Mamelodi residents are bracing themselves for a showdown with police and council officials ahead of planned evictions.

Barricading roads with rocks and burnt-out car wrecks on Monday, Lusaka residents say they will not move.

"We have heard that the council is coming for us. Our response is let them come. We are ready for them and will fight them."

This was the warning by several Lusaka residents following Friday's violent clashes with council-hired shack demolition men.

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Soshanguve still on edge after battles with police January 12, 2006

By Graeme Hosken

A tense calm descended on Soshanguve late yesterday as pockets of angry residents were still caught in a standoff with police.

This follows violent clashes and running street battles in the township, 25km north-west of Pretoria. Thousands of people took to the streets early yesterday, barricading several roads leading into the township with uprooted trees, boulders and burning tyres, in protest over a lack of service delivery.

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This article was originally published on page 3 of The Mercury on January

Chaos erupts as protesters vent their anger
Graeme Hosken
January 24 2006 at 07:37AM

Bloody violence erupted in Mabopane, outside Pretoria, on Monday with running street battles between township residents and the police as thousands of people took to the streets to vent their anger about poor services.

The street battles, which left 27 people, including 10 children, injured, saw stone-throwing protesters hurling petrol bombs and barricading streets with burning tyres as authorities fought back, firing teargas and rubber bullets at rioters. The protests saw hundreds of policemen flooding the area in an attempt to stem the violence.