/ 15 February 2001

SQUATTERS, POLICE CLASH OVER EVICTIONS

HUNDREDS of squatters have battled police in the poverty-stricken Alexandra township in Johannesburg in a protest against government efforts to evacuate families facing a cholera outbreak. Police fired volleys of teargas, rubber bullets and stun grenades after protesters threw rocks to stop authorities from moving families to new homes from makeshift shacks built on a cholera-infested river. One man who was shot and wounded during the protest was in stable condition in hospital. – Reuters