Regimes in four geopolitical and economic nodal points of the continent, with a combined population of 343 million, have launched mass arrests, teargassed protestors, arrested major opposition leaders, and killed at least two protestors.
"This is an attempt to overthrow the government. This is not a shutdown, but it’s anarchy," KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi,