Riot police fire on kids

22 January 2013

CHILDREN as young as four years old were pelted with rubber bullets and stun grenades as police opened fired on parents protesting over pupil transport shortages in Motherwell yesterday.

More than 50 angry parents and about 20 children from the Vukanibantu Primary School started protesting early in the morning and barricaded the Addo road near the township’s NU29 with burning tyres and stones.

Police then tried to disperse them with stun grenades – which make loud bangs to disorientate those nearby – and rubber bullets.

Some witnesses alleged police shot at the protesters without any warning.

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Report Abuse Author: alvonhumb Date: 22 January 2013 11:09

Join the dots : This story, events in Sasolburg today and the FNB veiled threats. Think back to recent similar examples. The ANC is coming under increasing pressure for its failures and from growing awareness of the public of the corruption that is diverting resources to the new elite from the people. The result is not a change in the ANC, but increasingly oppressive responses, using state machinery including the police, threats and propaganda to silence protest and criticism - this is the road to a second Zimbabwe.

Report Abuse Author: alvonhumb Date: 22 January 2013 11:09

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