Traffic on the N4 motorway, which connects Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, with Maputo in the neighboring Portuguese-speaking country, was reopened this afternoon after violent social protests, a source from the South African concessionaire said on Friday.
“Protests took place in the Vitbank area [atual eMalahleni]far from the border [com Moçambique]started on Tuesday, there were no protests today, we cleared the road because there was a lot of damage after four days of protests, but now the road is open,” a spokeswoman for Trans African Concessions (Trac) N4 told Lusa. Solange Soares.
“Whoever comes from Mozambique to Witbank will not have any problems,” he added, adding that the concessionaire was assessing the damage caused by demonstrations allegedly against the Mpummalanga provincial government.
Violent community protests began last Tuesday due to lack of water and electricity for five consecutive days, while the N4 highway in the eMalahleni region, about 320 kilometers from the border with Mozambique, was damaged. on fire, a South African spokeswoman explained to Luce.
The N4 connects South Africa’s capital Pretoria with the port of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, for 570 kilometers and is also an important link between South Africa and neighboring countries such as Eswatini and Botswana.
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