Africa-Press – South-Africa. Free State police have arrested 11 people and impounded several vehicles following a protest in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.
Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Thabo Covane, said members of the Mangaung Concerned Community blocked De Villiers Street with vehicles and collected rubbish from bins in the vicinity and littered the streets with it.
Covane said group the also used rocks to block roads leading to the Bram Fischer Building which houses the Mangaung Metro Municipality management and administration staff.
Covane said Public Order Police officers used stun grenades to disperse the crowd after they refused to clear the road.
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“The representative of Mangaung Metro Municipality management also reported incidents of malicious damage to property inside Bram Fischer building. The motor vehicles which were used to block the street are being impounded by the police,” Covane said.
He said nine men and two women were arrested.
Cases of public violence, contravention of the Gatherings Act and Road Traffic Act were opened.
The 11 protesters were expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
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