Durban landlord opens case after 2 buildings pelted, 25 windows broken during 30 June march

One of the 25 windows that were broken during the March and March protest action in Durban on Tuesday.

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March and March protesters marched through Durban on 30 June.Some threw marbles at high-rise buildings,cracking or breaking at least 25 windows.A motorist also had his car’s rear window smashed during the march.Although March and March’s protest action in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday appeared well-managed and coordinated in its early stages,drama unfolded at the tail end of a march in Durban,when two high-rise buildings were pelted,and a car’s rear window was smashed.

March and March protesters snaked through the roads of Durban on Tuesday,30 June – the organisation’s deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave the country.

They stopped outside the Point police station,where March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma addressed supporters.

Tension grew when marchers became agitated because Ngobese-Zuma addressed them in English.

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Some marchers paced up and down,and eventually,one person moved to the front glass door of a high-rise building,where the person and others started drinking,according to a landlord who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He said the marchers then began throwing marbles at the windows.

“Twenty-five windows have been reported as cracked or broken,” he said.

He showed News24 some of the broken windows and marbles inside the rooms.

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As he spoke to News24,another tenant called him to report a broken window.

During the interview,police passed by as they carried out post-march inspections.

He reported the issue to the officers and was told to open a case at the police station.

The police were walking from the next-door building,where they also received a complaint about marbles being thrown through windows.

The landlord told News24 that he opened a case on Wednesday.

He did not provide News24 with a case number.

News24 also witnessed that a motorist was furious after his car,which had been parked on the side of the road at the time of the march,was stoned.

Ngobese-Zuma had not responded to the claims by the time of writing.