A large group of protesters took on the streets across Zwelihle township and headed to the municipality building in Hermanus, where they handed memorandum of grievances.
While it remained largely business as usual in Cape Town during Tuesday's nationwide anti-immigration protests, police arrested 178 people - 165 undocumented persons, and 13 South Africans for looting and public violence-related offences.
This, while demonstrators representing organisations such as March and March, Operation Dudula, and the Labour and Civic Organisation (LACO), vowed to intensify their campaign, citing an unsatisfactory response from the provincial government concerning employment issues.
Police said that by late afternoon, 10 of the 13 arrests were made in Delft, where suspects looted a shop in Voorbrug.
Nationwide illegal immigration protests met with heavy police presence.
