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Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Executive Mayor Chippa Ngcolomba has called for calm and stability in the Uitenhage northern areas.
The areas which include Kwalanga, Rosedale and the surrounding areas have been engulfed by violent protests for the past three days.
Police said residents set fire to a municipal health and wellness office, a vehicle in front of an ANC councillor's house, and a
Democratic Alliance office. Several shops were looted.
Speaking at Uitenhage Town Hall on Friday, Ngcolomba condemned the incidents.
He said the allegations made that the riots had been caused by slow housing delivery were unfounded and without substance and that all indications were that they were acts of criminality and opportunism.
The National Chairperson of the African Christian Democratic Party, Jo-Anne Downs, says the burning down of a home belonging to an ACDP councillor at Uitenhage, was unacceptable.
"None of the opposition parties knew that the eviction order was going to be put on the squatter camp which was what led to the violence. Nobody was prepared for it, probably the Metro themselves were not fully prepared for it. It is not fair what the protesters are doing. It is the government that they are upset with and should not take it out on the people" she said
DA Chief Whip in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Gustav Rautenbach says the slow pace of housing delivery, high levels of unemployment, and political infighting were the main causes of the violence in Kwalanga.
