He said unrest was likely to spread to the nearby suburbs of Guguletu and Khayelitsha, where protesters erected barricades and emptied buckets of human waste on a busy thoroughfare earlier this week to protest the total lack of facilities.
At a meeting late Tuesday, Mcebisi Skwaya of the ruling African National Congress pleaded with locals to give authorities more time.
"We can't promise houses in three months because of pressure that there will be violence," he said. "Progress is there but it's going to take time. We are asking people to be patient," said Skwaya.
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