A large fence has been erected to create a barricade in streets around the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters as DA marchers protest against load-shedding, the recent Eskom tariff increase and cadre deployment.
DA leader John Steenhuisen led an estimated 2,500 supporters from Mary Fitzgerald Square in the Johannesburg CBD to Luthuli House, where police cordoned off parts of the vicinity, creating a barricade between DA and ANCYL supporters who had earlier vowed to “defend” the ruling party headquarters.
There is a heavy police and Johannesburg metro police presence. A police nyala carrying barbed wire is parked near the ANC headquarters. A police officer told TimesLIVE they were ordered to erect the fence to prevent conflict between the two groups. There were two brief incidents, with ANCYL members chasing away DA members who approached their end of the barricade and when ANC members faced off with police.
Commotion erupts on the other side of a fence along Simmonds Street where ANC members face off with police who are trying to keep the peace between them and the DA following the opposition party's
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