The city officially opened a temporary clinic in conjunction with the Western Cape Provincial Government to provide better primary healthcare services to residents in the area.

The current temporary safety measure involves upgrading the existing agricultural underpass as an alternative to crossing the N7 for the Dunoon community.

The protest was the result of a standoff between some taxi bosses and the city council, which refused to budge on demands for allocated transport routes and the scrapping of fines.

[8] On 23 April 2020, the Western Cape Human Settlements Department began talking to Dunoon residents about plans to de-densify the area to slow the spread of COVID-19.

[9] On 21 June 2020, the City of Cape Town experienced a surge of arson attacks that targeted MyCiTi bus infrastructure, putting further strain on an already overstretched public transport system.

As South Africa attempted to revive its economy after a prolonged period of lockdown, the public transport system was hit by a wave of protest and destruction.

This is nothing less but sabotage of the worst possible kind, and in a time of crisis when COVID-19 is challenging our resolve like never before.The ongoing unrest in Dunoon was apparently linked to a lack of service delivery and contentious land grabs that have plagued the area over the past year.

a ward councillor – who spoke out against a criminal syndicate that was allegedly responsible for selling plots of land – was the subject of an arson attack.

Western Cape South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson Captain Frederick van Wyk confirmed that the area had been inundated by acts of violence and arson.

Van Wyk said; "Sporadic incidents of public violence are currently taking place on Potsdam and N7 due to a dispute of allocation of housing".