The tension between some Swellendam residents and the town’s municipality which led to its municipal offices going up in flames, continued to simmer late last night. Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Cape Town - The N2 near Swellendam was closed off to traffic after 8 on Thursday night as protesters burned tyres, threw stones, barricaded roads and looted foreign- run shops as they vented their ...

Chaos broke out in Swellendam after irate residents took to the streets to protest over steep municipal increases. Residents set alight the municipality head office and blocked major roads. Police and ...

Residents of Railton in Swellendam fear that protests could erupt yet again as "nothing has changed" since the protests of August and September 2023. That unrest was brought on by high electricity ...

The Swellendam Municipality, in the Western Cape, said all entrances and exits in and around the town are blocked, including the N2 highway. “The Swellendam municipal head office is burned down.

Photo: Swellendam Municipality – SWEMun/Facebook. A service delivery protest in Swellendam, in the Overberg region of the Western Cape, turned violent after a building was set alight by residents.

CAPE TOWN - The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Western Cape said it welcomed any lawful investigation that would get to the bottom of tender fraud allegations within the Swellendam Local Municipality.