Democratic Alliance, Cosatu in violent clashes
' HIV-AIDS IS BETTER THAN D.A. ' – SCREAMED ONE POSTER OF COSATU TRADE UNION MEMBERS…
May 15 2012 – JOHANNESBURG. A legal "Job Rights' protest march by some 5,000 Democratic Alliance opposition party members outside the headquarters of South Africa's co-ruling Cosatu trade union movement building in Braamfontein turned violent, with at least twelve people injured by stones. One person is in critical conditon. The SAPS used teargas to keep the two factions from fighting each other. link
Mike Elliott snapped this photograph of a poster carried by Cosatu supporters:
https://twitter.com/#!/Mike__Elliott/status/202414902223187969/photo/1
At least twelve people injured by flying bricks:
When the DA march was announced, the Johannesburg metropolitan police also granted permission to Cosatu to hold a counter-demonstration. Twelve people were treated for their injuries within minutes after the first bricks started raining down, reported Verashni Pillay on Twitter. Below, Mail & Guardian journalist Nickolas Bauer was treated after he was hit by a flying brick. Also on the insert is a man in a DA-tshirt, holding a half-brick during the violence.
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