Service Delivery Protests Latest: Watch residents burn tyres

Angry residents blocked old Main Road with burning rubble and tyres blocking vehicle access to the Isipingo Rail area in a service delivery protest on Monday morning.

eThekwini Metro Police spokesperson, Superintendent Parboo Sewpersad, said police had responded to the scene early in the morning after violent protestors had blocked old main Road with burning tyres.

“The protestors are violent at this stage. The police have been there from this morning trying to clear the roadway,” he said.

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Sewpersad said residents, who lived in informal settlements in the area, were protesting about poor service delivery, in particular, access to improved housing.

Members of the SAPS and eThekwini Fire Department attended the scene of the protest to douse the flames where protestors had blocked several sections of the road in the early hours of Monday.

Angry protestors also recently blocked the N2 freeway at Ezinqoleni, Padock and Harding after trucks were set alight at Umtentweni on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast

A mob of angry protestors allegedly set several trucks alight on the N2 freeway on Tuesday 23 March as commuters headed home for the day.

Police had arrested three suspects for arson and public violence  following the violent service violent protests that had broken out on the N2 Freeway in the early hours of the morning.

According to several news reports and videos posted on social media from the scene, protestors set a municipal building and a state owned vehicle alight. They blocked the N2 at Izingolweni between Hibberdene and Port Shepstone with burning tyres and rubble from around 4.30am in the morning. A heavy police presence arrived at the scene to monitor the area.

This video of a burning truck had circulated on social media at the time with warnings posted to avoid travelling on the N2 freeway.