Mangaung Metro has for a long time been under scrutiny over issues of service delivery, and recently the municipality's workers protested as a result of unpaid salaries. 

OFM News reported on various protests at the metro which saw premises being barricaded. 

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The EFF in the Free State claimed that the continuous protests at Bram Fischer are a result of the ANC's factional battles. However, the spokesperson of the ANC's Interim Provincial Committee (IPC), Oupa Khoabane, refuted the claims and said that the protests also impact residents negatively.

"What's concerning to us is that the institution must attend to the issues that communities are raising as a problem. But we also would not encourage communities whenever they have problems and want to protest, they then barricade the building of the municipality to an extent that they render the institution dysfunctional. 

"People cannot go there to complain about services, workers cannot go to work and people cannot go there to pay their services. That is such type of a protest that renders the institution dysfunctional, not necessarily that the institution was dysfunctional itself," said Khoabane.

Meanwhile, Khoabane reiterated that the protests have nothing to do with the structures of the ANC. 

OFM News reported that the case of Mangaung Concerned Community (MCC) members who were arrested last week has been postponed to next week Tuesday by the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court while arrested protesters still remain in police custody.

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