Port Elizabeth parents chant 'down with Angie', police open fire with stun grenades
Angry parents blocked a major road on Wednesday amid ongoing protest action over the education crisis in Port Elizabeth's northern areas. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Marlon Daniels arrested#EducationMarch: Nationalist Coloured Party regional chairman Marlon Daniels and twenty other parents have been arrested. Police have also started using stun grenades to disperse the crowd. Read more here: http://bit.ly/1p7iqPY Video: Lee-Anne Butler/The Herald Posted by Herald Port Elizabeth on Wednesday, 9 March 2016Parents marched on Stanford Road to the Gelvandale Stadium‚ chanting "down with education department and down with Angie"‚ a reference to the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. The disputes with government include the filling of vacant teacher posts and assistance for special-needs pupils.Nationalist Coloured Party regional chairman Marlon Daniels told parents that the time for speaking is over.Police were on the scene and shortly before noon‚ irate parents decided to close Stanford Road after officials from the education department were already over an hour late to meet with parents.Dressed in riot gear‚ police threatened to arrest parents who blocked the road but parents were adamant that they were not going to leave until education department officials address them.(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Parents block Stanford Road#EducationMarch: Parents tell police that they are not going to leave until education department officials address them. Nationalist Coloured Party regional chairman Marlon Daniels has since been arrested by police. Read more here: http://bit.ly/1p7iqPYPosted by Herald Port Elizabeth on Wednesday, 9 March 2016Shortly after‚ Daniels was arrested and police used stun grenades to disperse the crowd...
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