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Commuters’ ride of hell

14 March 2013
TERRIFIED passengers on eight city buses ducked for their lives yesterday as they were pelted with stones by Motherwell protesters, angry that their homes had been torched by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on Tuesday.

Two buses were also set alight in the morning mayhem.

The protesters said they wanted to sell parts from the buses as scrap metal so they could feed themselves and buy goods lost when their homes were razed.

Passengers, many of them bruised and shaken, told of their horror when they realised the violent crowd had turned on them.


 

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