Shot for taking rice: Tensions run high as police in Eastern Cape open fire, killing two

Police in Mzamba in the Eastern Cape appear to have ignored a national instruction not to use live ammunition for crowd control, fatally wounding two people - a 34-year-old woman, allegedly shot in the back - and a 19-year-old man, as well as injuring 11 others after a truck transporting sugar and rice lost its load on the R61 at Plangweni near Lurholweni village yesterday. By MARIANNE THAMM.