source: GroundUp
actor1: Rioters (South Africa)
actor2: Rioters (South Africa)
location: Gqeberha
notes: Around 8 July 2020 (week of), community members from Endlovini and Nkandla near Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape) clashed over electricity issues. The clashes began when Nkandla residents tried to remove illegal electricity connections from municipal electricity poles. They claimed that they had no electricity for two days and these illegal connections were damaging their appliances and affecting the supply of their electricity. Four informal houses were destroyed. [size=no report]