KOMATIPOORT – Violent clashes between protesters and police in Mozambique’s capital of Maputo intensified on Thursday as hundreds of residents took to the streets.
Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the protestors, who took to the town in help of ongoing requires a recount of the nation’s presidential election votes.
South Africa has, in the meantime, bolstered legislation enforcement on the Lebombo border after information emerged that protesters sought to once more goal the Mozambican facet of the border publish.
Whereas political protests in Mozambique have resulted in at least 30 deaths, mass looting and injury to infrastructure, residents are undeterred, demanding an pressing change of management.
Demonstrators are sad with the virtually 50-year reign of the ruling FRELIMO social gathering.
Chatting with Eyewitness Information from the Lebombo border in Mpumalanga, truck driver, Soviet Chirembwe, whose truck was looted on Thursday, mentioned it could take a very long time for Mozambique to get its methods again on monitor for the borders to reopen.
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Chirembwe mentioned the scenario on the Mozambican facet of the border publish, generally known as kilometre 4, wouldn’t be straightforward to repair.
“Customs was looted of the whole lot, even the computer systems for House Affairs have been stolen. Even when the strike ends at the moment, it should take a month or two for the whole lot to be restored at kilometre 4.”
The port of Maputo has been severely impacted as tonnes of coal and chrome are unable to be delivered from South Africa into Mozambique.
