Residents at Booysens informal settlement in Eloff street, Johannesburg, have violated lockdown regulations by staging a protest in the CBD.
According to the Johannesburg Metro Police, the community claimed that they hadn’t received food parcels that were promised to them.
The police had to be called out after demonstrators blocked off the road with rocks and burned tyres.
The police’s Kay Makhubele: “Police have been deployed and so far we are still determining what their grievances are. Our public order police are engaging with them.”