"There is no water, no electricity," community leader Justice Rabula, said. 

"We survive by buying water. A 20 litre bucket costs R5. The water tanker from the municipality (Rustenburg) comes after a long time, it can takes about four weeks before the tanker brings water," he said. 

He said that after years of being sent from pillar to post when they raised issues about the electrification of their area, the community contributed money and bought cables to get electricity for the settlement. They  tapped electricity from the near by Sibanye mine. 

"Mine security cut our cables and took them to Rustenburg police station, we do not know whether we will get our cables back. It is money, people contributed R800 per house.

"Residents then went on a protest barricading the road. The protest is about development, since 1994 nothing has been done for these area," he said.

"We have seen mayors and councillors in every local election but, nothing for us as a community," another community leader, Lebona Makolwane, said.

"The Rustenburg municipality claimed the land belonged to the Bafokeng (Royal Bafokeng Administration) but when election tents are erected with no problems. Promises are made and not fulfilled," Makolwane said.

Another electric cable parallel to those that the community are connected to solar panels.

"This cables were installed by the former councillor at that time there was no issue about the land ownership," the leaders said.

Rustenburg municipal spokesperson David Magae said he was co-ordinating information on the allegations and would respond later.

African News Agency met men and women who were injured allegedly by police rubber bullets in the settlement.

"I was running away, when a teargas can ripped my shoe and I was injured," one man said.

He had a deep cut on his left foot.

"That can tore off my shoe. Why did the police shoot at us," he said, adding that he did not go to a clinic or hospital for medical attention.

Another resident was Mphungwa Moleletsane, 61, she had wounds on her right shoulder and arm, allegedly inflicted by a police rubber bullets. 

"I was arrested together with many others. We appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court and we are going back on 31 October," she said.

Her detention slip states that she was arrested for public violence.

North West police spokesperson Captain Aafje Botma said she would verify how many people were arrested and on what charges.

The D108 road linking Rustenburg and Marikana was blocked with logs, rocks and burning tyres, cutting off traffic between Rustenburg and Marikana via Bleskop.

The protesters braved the scorching sun, toyi-toying on the D108 road, as they have vowed to continue protesting until their demands were met or else they would take their protest to the N4 highway near the Waterfall Regional Mall.

ANA