8 An Imminent Attack

• A large contingent of police in plain clothes and camouflage uniforms begin patrolling Boipatong and removing barricades.
• Members of SDUs repair the barricades after the police leave.
• Warnings are passed on to high-ranking officers in the local police.
• Boipatong residents fearing an attack, patrol the streets.
• Police arrive at 21h00 & order patrolling youth to get off the streets, teargassing those who refuse.
• Police fire birdshot in retaliation to a petrol-bombing of a police vehicle.