Protests rock Redcliff

HUNDREDS of Torwood residents, some of them elderly people, braved a three-hour march covering a four-kilometre journey to Redcliff mayor Freddy Kapuya’s office to protest the ongoing evictions and high council rates and fees.

The council has over the past two weeks locked out 19 families from their homes in the suburb accusing them of failing to settle their bills since June 2013.

The demonstrators also included Ziscosteel workers carrying placards which read: “Kapuya has failed us he should go”, “Shelter is a basic right respect it”, and “We have a right to clean water.”

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