Port Elizabeth residents blocked roads yesterday in protest at delays in housing. Photo: Joseph Chirume

Port Elizabeth residents blocked major roads yesterday (30 March 2016) to protest against delays in building houses they had been promised by the municipality. More than 200 angry residents of NU12B blocked the R334 and R335 roads to Addo and Uitenhage. Two years ago the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality embarked on a programme to rebuild hundreds of houses which had been badly built. The protesters gathered at a construction site on NU12 where they protested against the slow delivery of … [Read more...] about PE residents protest at delays in handing over houses