Demonstrations about gender-based violence and farm murders at parliament in Cape Town on Saturday ended with the arrest of about 12 protesters.
Many of the motorcyclists who joined the protest as part of a nationwide uprising dubbed Bikers United Against Farm Murders abd Racism sported stickers reading “No violence, no crime”, but TimesLIVE photographer Esa Alexander filmed police pulling one of them to the ground, sparking a violent clash.
Gender-based violence demonstrators kneel in the street in front of parliament in Cape Town on August 29 2020.Protester Sophia Farber-Daniel, 15, said the demonstrators who were arrested were kneeling on the street in the rain and holding up placards. “They were thrown in the back of police vehicles, then the police started using their vehicles to try to herd the crowd back up the street,” she said.
Sophia said the crowd responded to the police by chanting “Justice and peace, f*** the police”, and covered many of their vehicles with posters. One marcher said: “If you burn down schools, the police do nothing, but if you protest about gender-based violence or farm murders they respond like this.”
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