First Bullets Fired in Showdown over National Shutdown in South Africa scrollaafrica: SouthAfrica NationalShutdown
Police fired shots and arrested protesters near to student residences in Braamfontein in Johannesburg on Sunday night.
A large contingent of the SAPS swearing and manhandling young women was caught on video just three hours before the official start of the national shutdown. In Sebokeng, the Vaal, a small group of protesters barricaded Moshoeshoe Road with burning tyres, hours before the much anticipated national shutdown.
Police on Sunday were seen loading tyres during the day in their big trucks which they suspected to be put alongside the roads by protesters."The current deployment of the army and law enforcement agencies, has surpassed that of the Apartheid regime in the 1980's during the State of Emergency.
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