Violent protests rocked Port Elizabeth\u2019s northern areas on Monday. <\/p>\n
On Monday areas \u2013 including Gelvandale and Bethelsdorp \u2013 were ablaze over the closure of 33 schools due to a lack of teachers.<\/p>\n
Talks between angry residents, principals, the Eastern Cape Education Department and other interested parties were expected to continue on Tuesday to avoid a repeat of Monday’s violence.<\/p>\n
Protesters blocked roads with burning barricades, forcing the deployment of Public Order Policing and Tactical Response Teams to control the situation.<\/p>\n
Photos and videos uploaded onto social media showed some protesters making petrol bombs. Others displayed spent bullet casings, claiming live ammunition had been fired into the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has calmed down a lot. The situation is slowly returning to normal. There are negotiations taking place at the moment,\u201d she said on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Parents, pupils and even taxi drivers reportedly took part in the protests that erupted on Monday morning, with protesters also complaining about a lack of infrastructure at the schools, apart from the closures and a lack of teachers.<\/p>\n
Police said: \u201cCriminal elements seized the opportunity\u201d to loot a shop in West End but law enforcement officers were able to disperse the crowd and prevent any looting from taking place.<\/p>\n
\u201cSix police vehicles and one vehicle belonging to a resident were damaged.”<\/p>\n
Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Violent protests rocked Port Elizabeth\u2019s northern areas on Monday. On Monday areas \u2013 including Gelvandale and Bethelsdorp \u2013 were ablaze over the closure of 33 schools due to a lack of teachers. Talks between angry residents, principals, the Eastern Cape Education Department and other interested parties were expected to continue on Tuesday to avoid a … Continue reading “Violence rocks PE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,92,2022,11742,315,140],"class_list":["post-19870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-looting","tag-nelson-mandela-bay","tag-protests","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19871,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19870\/revisions\/19871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}