Police Use Rubber Bullets to Quell Johannesburg Unrest

Police uses rubber bullets to disperse crowds in the Johannesburg neighborhood of Jeppestown on April 17, according to local reports. Overnight violence saw six people held for looting by police, amid a spate of xenophobic violence in the region. Several foreign-owned businesses were looted and cars torched during the night and early morning.

Police in Johannesburg were on alert on April 15 as mobs threatened to close foreign-owned shops, according to reports. Some shops in the city’s Central Business District (CBD) shut their doors, as the fear of xenophobic violence spread.

Scuffles broke out near an anti-xenophobia march in the port city of Durban on April 16, where five people were left dead following a week of fighting between South Africans and foreign nationals.

This video is described as showing police firing rubber bullets in Jeppestown. Credit: YouTube/Jacaranda FM