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Original Post Date: 2002-01-02 Time: 18:54:38 Posted By: Jan
There is most bizarre “tradition” which has grown up in the heavily built-up part of Johannesburg, Hillbrow. It is an area where mostly black people live in high-rise buildings. In recent years they have developed a “tradition” of throwing all manner of things out of these buildings on to people below. This includes chairs, fridges, etc. People get seriously injured. Take a look at the news report below.
Jan
Hillbrow has become notorious for its New Year Eve’s celebrations and over 250 policemen and 70 soldiers, wearing helmets and bullet-proof vests despite the warm temperature, spent Monday night criss-crossing the area to keep a lid on violence.
The heavy police presence helps “to keep people staying in the buildings rather than coming down to overturn cars and loot,” said Senior Superintendent Chris Wilken as he rode shotgun with his men.
As on previous years, roads leading into Hillbrow were sealed off to stop motorists venturing in to the neighbourhood where they would be stoned or fired at. Projectiles used include stoves and fridges tossed from high-rise balconies.
Hillbrow sits cheek-by-jowl with an eerily-empty and silent downtown Johannesburg.
As they drove into the area, the armoured cars were met by the sound of exploding firecrackers and the whistles and cat-calls of hundreds of people out on their balconies or jeering from the safety of gated building entrances.
The neighbourhood is home to illegal immigrants from other parts of Africa, late-night discos and bars, seedy hotels and brothels set amid high-rises, medium-sized residential flats and individual houses.
Shops were shuttered, but petrol stations were manned. Most cars had been parked off the streets, and those remaining soon had their windows smashed to pieces.
Most people kept off the streets, but one young woman, Sandra Khumalo, phoned police after a young man she was walking with got knocked down by a flying bottle.
“I was just passing. They threw bottles. I’m trying to get to my flat, I’m afraid,” she said.
Four young men were taken into custody by gun-toting soldiers and police.
A few minutes later, several armoured cars pulled up on Caroline Street, where a man had just been shot.
Linda Butana, his wife, said they were standing on their balcony on the fifth floor when a youth opened fire with a pistol from the street below. The husband, shot in the face, was rushed off to hospital.
Bottles and garbage continued raining down into the street as police answered back with rubber bullets. A reveler blew a trumpet. A helicopter flew overhead, its searchlight painting nearby buildings.
As midnight approached, small fires were lit in the streets and the tempo of thumps from heavy objects raining down on the armoured cars increased. One police car reported coming under gunfire.
A youth with several gashes to his head said he had just been hit by a falling bed.
At midnight, blue and red fireworks were going off, but fired horizontally from one building into another or directly into the streets. The armoured cars were by then running on a carpet of glass, garbage and broken pieces of furniture.
“It’s much quieter this year,” said Wilken.
Early on Tuesday, police reported six people slightly hurt in Hillbrow overnight by falling objects and two men arrested for firing at police.
Elsewhere in central Johannesburg, a 12-year-old boy, out playing with firecrackers, was shot dead by an unknown gunman. – AFP