S Africans protest unfair housing

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Protests over lack of housing and other basic services broke out in several cities across South Africa on Wednesday, underlining the slow pace of change for millions of poor blacks a decade after apartheid's end.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets against hundreds of protesters who erected barricades of burning tires in Happy Valley, an inaptly named slum settlement outside Cape Town.

Some 2,000 residents of the poor township of Segunda in the northern Cape marched to the town hall demanding the mayor's resignation for his failure to improve abysmal living conditions.

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