News24.com | #SAunites LIVE: AS IT HAPPENED: South Africans thanked for peaceful marches
2017-04-07 05:43
Ministers holding a press briefing on nationwide protests said South Africans exercised their rights to march peacefully and thanked them for doing so. Police were also commended for protecting citizens.
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Police fired stun grenades to break up a hostile shouting match between pro- and anti-Zuma demonstrators outside the Saxonworld home of the Gupta brothers who own Oakbay Investments and have been accused of manipulating Cabinet appointments.
According to Netwerk24 photographer Felix Dlangamandla about 20 pro-Zuma Black First Land First (BLF) and about 500 anti-Zuma supporters almost came to blows outside the Johannesburg estate.
BLF supporters were shouting ”one settler, one bullet”, and accused the anti-Zuma protesters of benefiting in the past through land that was taken away from them.
As the altercation became more heated, police asked them to leave the leafy suburb, and then set off stun grenades to clear the area.
The house was guarded by private security, and police had come out from Norwood and Rosebank to assist the Public Order police.
The Gupta brothers Ajay and Atul have allegedly been having a behind the scenes say in who President Jacob Zuma appoints as Cabinet ministers, according to claims that have not been tested in court.
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