[news] Corruption and neglect lead to township riots against ANC

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By David Blair in Khutsong | 02/03/2006 | Telegraph UK

Local council offices have been looted and stripped bare, the public library gutted by fire. Police helicopters hover overhead and armoured cars patrol the streets, scenes reminiscent of the township revolt against the apartheid regime 20 years ago.

Then repression from a white supremacist regime drove the ANC underground. In Khutsong today its councillors are again leading underground lives, having fled the fury of their constituents.

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