DAVID SMITH
As far as I could hear on that same day as the
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incident.  When the Caspers came into the township they did so to protect the people from the electrical services because they were coming to switch off the lights and the electricity and that is what caused the problems.  The people did not want to allow them to switch off the electricity and the lights since everything had already happened exactly because of the high rent and the high electrical and water tariffs.  This would have increased the conflict.  After the shooting, of course, things went out of hand.  Everything was the consequence of the water and lights and the rent boycott.