In photos: Anti-Zuma protests

Political marches rock cities across the country

| By Photo Essay | South Africa
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An anti-Zuma protester on the lawns outside the Union Buildings. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
March to Parliament in Cape Town. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

This video by Ashraf Hendricks gives a sense of the size of the Cape Town crowd, but even it doesn’t show how large the protest was, because it doesn’t show tens of thousands of protesters on Plein Street.

Part of the crowd at the Union Buildings. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
ANC supporters opposed to Zuma attended the marches. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
There were many EFF supporters in the protests. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
At the Union Buildings. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
The DA protest in Johannesburg was massive. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
MK veterans at Luthuli House. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
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March in East London. Photo:  Manqulo Nyakombi
 Vuyisile Mini Square in Port Elizabeth. Photo: Joseph Chirume

See more photos of the protests on Friday 7 April: Tens of thousands march against Zuma

TOPICS:  Corruption Government Human Rights Jacob Zuma

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