Mfuleni's sports complex was vandalised and looted over the festive season. A community leader who is lobbying for the trashed buildings to be renovated has blamed the City of Cape Town for cancelling a contract with a security company to protect the grounds.
The clubhouse, changing rooms and offices at Mfuleni's Astroturf soccer field lie in ruins. The doors and windows have been ripped out of the walls, so too have the taps and shower heads. Some furniture has been stolen, other items - like the club house's pool table - have been trashed. Shattered glass covers the ground of the four buildings affected.
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