KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has attributed a fairly quiet start to the EFF’s national shutdown protests in Durban on Monday to the party experiencing challenges in transporting protesters to the city.
Mkhwanazi addressed media at Hoy Park in central Durban before embarking on an aerial inspection of what police regard as hotspots, including Phoenix, Inanda and KwaMashu.
Mkhwanazi said: “It’s very quiet all over but I think they had a bit of a challenge moving these protesters to the city. “We have never received any notice of any march. Had we received a notice, we would have planned for the routes that they were going to use.He said he has not done the math on the costs yet.
“But the figures on those we have mobilised, ordinarily [those] who would have been on a rest day, we spent over R30m on that for KZN alone. We had to pay them special allowance for them to be on duty.KZN police commissioner Lt-gen Mkhwanazi says a few protesters have been arrested
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