Hundreds of South Africans on Monday staged protests in Cape Town and Johannesburg over the killing of farmers in the country.
The protests dubbed “Black Monday” were to enable South Africans express outrage at the increase in farm murders with the recent killing involving a white farmer in Klapmuts near Stellenbosch.
The victim, Joubert Conradie, 47 was shot on his farm last Tuesday and died later at a clinic.
Convoys of cars blocked highways in Cape Town and Johannesburg resulting in three people sustaining injuries following a thirteen-vehicle collision on a highway when a truck plunged into the standstill protest action, according to News24.
The South African emergency response team, ER24 has said in a statement that “It is understood that a driver of a truck apparently lost control, causing the vehicle to crash into several others during an apparent protest action.”
“Upon further inspection, paramedics found that ten vehicles and three trucks were completely blocking the entire one side of the road. Several vehicles were found overturned on the grassy embankment.” ER24 added.
The protests have raised issues of racism with some Afrikaner South Africans carrying the old Apartheid flag.
Source: Africafeeds.com
