Social development is slow and the municipal authority is blamed of indifference.
Four people have so far been wounded in the worst turmoil in Johannesburg in the post-apartheid era. Squatters refusing to be moved fought street battles with municipal security guards yesterday. After the Juskei River parts of the Alexandra suburb were identified as cholera danger zones, residents expected that the long promised improvements in water and sanitary infrastructure would be implemented. It was decided to evacuate the residents to other areas that neither have sufficient sanitary infrastructure. The company's only response to the threat of cholera in Alexandra has been to check up on the few chemical toilets in the area.