Timeslive reports that several houses were set alight and several people injured in clashes between community members in Phola near Ogies on Wednesday.  

Colonel Mtsholi Bhembe of the SA Police Service (SAPS) said:  “A group of people who were marching to a local power station demanding employment were attacked by another group‚ who also torched several houses in the process.  The group believed to be from Ogies used pangas‚ axes and other dangerous weapons during the attack and as a result‚ more than 40 people sustained injuries‚ some so severe they had to be hospitalised.”  Bhembe said no arrests had been made thus far.

• A short report by Naledi Shange is at Timeslive

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