Police fire rubber bullets on South African rioters

 
South African police fired  rubber bullets at rioters in a slum settlement near Johannesburg  on Wednesday, the third day of violence prompted by a false  rumour of forced evictions, police and local media said. Thousands of residents have rioted since Monday in the  informal settlement of Diepsloot in rare scenes reminiscent of  South Africa's apartheid past when members of the black majority  clashed sporadically with the white government's security forces  until free elections a decade ago. [more]