Police, community forums out in forces as EFF-led protest gets off to quiet start

Police were out in full force in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, which had been rocked by looting and vandalism in July 2021 ostensibly triggered by former president Jacob Zuma’s incarceration for contempt of court. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Economic Freedom Fighter leader Julius Malema has called the ‘national shutdown’ a success but Police Minister Bheki Cele thinks otherwise