EFF members pelt police with stones, demanding entry to #GPSOPA2017

State of the Province Address #GPSONA2017

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EFF members pelt police with stones, demanding entry to #GPSOPA2017

20 February 2017 1:12 PM

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) tried to enter Randfontein stadium where Gauteng Premier David Makhura delivers his State of the Province Address (Sopa).

#GPSOPA2017 EFF protestors blocking police from driving through. They are outside the stadium in Randfontein where Makhura is speaking. MR pic.twitter.com/Uk8l2f5BOz
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) February 20, 2017

#GPSOPA These EFF supporters say they want the premier to address them too. MK pic.twitter.com/2iVPyAijuu
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) February 20, 2017

According to EWN reporter Masego Rahlaga reporting from the stadium, EFF members started pelting stones at a police nyala demanding entry to the stadium.

What they did was to go around the nyala, and started breaking part of the wall to try and get entry. Of course, the police nyala started driving towards them. But they pelted stones again. They started singing.
— Masego Rahlaga, EWN reporter

Some of them had crosses seemingly representing those Esidimeni patients who died.
— Masego Rahlaga, EWN reporter

Listen to Masego Rahlaga below for more developments on #GPSOPA2017...

Written by: Sinikiwe Mqadi

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