Benoni protest

A truck is attacked during a violent service delivery protest in Benoni. Wattville and Actonville residents marched to the Benoni Civic Centre to demand service delivery, but things got violent with windows being broken, bins spilled all over the roads, cars being vandalised, as well as bystanders being intimidated. The march moved back to Actonville resulting in a stand-off between hostel residents and police with the hostel residents stoning passing cars and intimidating people .

A marcher flings a brick at a glass door of a welding company during the march in Benoni.

Hostel residents barricaded the roads and stoned passing cars. 

A video from my GoPro attached to the lens hood of my Nikon D700, please excuse the shakiness, as my priority is stills, but I do plan on getting better at video.

Truck strike march

Marchers flee after police shoot tear-gas and shoot rubber bullets to control the crowd during a march by striking SATAWU union members, in Isando, Gauteng

I was the only photographer at this point of the march, as the march had already been to the offices of the employers and they were near the Isando train station to make their way home. As the large group came up to the station, a few of them started attacking a truck that was apparently broken down at the side of the road, (the driver had wisely left the scene). Police replied with a volley of rubber bullets and tear gas, I found myself in a small field with no cover, and I took a few frames as I dashed towards a electricity box, before I even got there everything was done and the marchers simply continued into the station. There was a few people affected by the tear-gas, but I was 100%, maybe I'm getting used to it.

Truck Strike

A burning soft drink truck is looted on Main Reef road in Cleveland, Germiston on the 28 September 2012. Many trucks have been targeted by striking truck drivers. They usually assault the working truckers then set the truck on fire.

A bakery delivery van on fire, Pretoria road, Isando, 26 September 2012.

Tow truck operators remove a burnt out courier truck near the Elandsfontein station in Jet Park, 9 October 2012.