VUWANI, South Africa (Reuters) - Angry residents have torched 19 schools in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, protesting a change in municipal boundaries which they say is a recipe for poor social services, as tensions rise ahead of local polls in August.
The skeletal remains of metal desk frames amid ashes and rubble were smouldering testimony to the anger of the arsonists who set the two-room Vhudzani secondary school alight.
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