Malawi: Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Women Board Buses Home and Men Are Taken to Lindela

Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at Malawian nationals at Sherwood Hall in Durban on Wednesday after men at the transit site refused to be moved to the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Gauteng.

The men had come to Sherwood Hall to be repatriated to Malawi. When authorities told them they would be loaded into vans bound for Lindela instead of buses going home, they refused. The crowd, carrying rocks, sticks and tree branches, pelted police with stones and bottles.

"We have been told to go to Malawi," one man said. "Why are they not taking us to Malawi now? They are putting us inside vans instead of putting us in buses."