Police fight protesters in South Africa

Police in Johannesburg detonated stun grenades and fired water canon at hundreds of stone-throwing members of the ruling party’s youth league today as its leaders were brought before a disciplinary committee.

The youth league’s feisty and powerful president, Julius Malema, and five other officers have angered party leaders with plans to send a committee to neighbouring Botswana to help oust the government of democratically elected President Ian Khama.