UNREST broke out in KwaNokuthula outside Plettenberg Bay yesterday when about 1 000 residents set up burning barricades in the main street, protesting against the expulsion of ANC councillor Memory Booysen.
The protesters burnt tyres and grass at three intersections in Sishuba Street, which leads to the N2 highway, around 4am, leaving hundreds of people with no way to get to work and school. They also tipped over dustbins and bus shelters.
Police Captain Frans van Rooyen said they were deployed around 6am and called in reinforcements from the crime combating unit in George, bolstering their numbers to about 70.
He said the protesters stoned vehicles and attacked the police, who fired rubber bullets and stun grenades.
Two women told The Herald their babies, whom they were carrying on their backs, had been hit by rubber bullets... The Herald
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