Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers
28 June 2018
Land occupiers in the Old Brakpan township were awoken by rubber bullets hitting the doors of their newly built shacks on Tuesday morning as metro police evicted the occupiers and demolished 300 shacks, GroundUp reports.
According to metro police, only occupants who had lived in the informal settlement for more than a year could stay because their case was still pending in court.
"All the new occupants who had come to the land three weeks ago under EFF registrations had to leave," said Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department spokesperson Wilfred Kgasago.
Infuriated EFF members and occupiers said they would not leave the piece of land, "no matter what".