source: Citizen (South Africa)
actor1: Rioters (South Africa)
actor2: Civilians (South Africa)
location: Groblersdal
notes: On 18 November 2021, residents, armed with machetes, pangas, sticks, picks and buckets full of faeces, closed the offices of the Sekhukhune district municipality in Limpopo [coded to Groblersdal, Sekhukhune, Limpopo]. The group ordered all staff to leave the building. Those who resisted were slapped and pepper sprayed. Human faeces were thrown at some. The incident is related to the hiring of truck drivers not from the community for a local project in Moutse. [size=no report]