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Just a couple photos of a recent demonstration before we leave Cape Town. These fishermen are protesting their impossibly low quotas.

Four years ago, a similar protest in nearby Hout Bay erupted into violence. A news report from 9/13/17:

Residents on the rampage in Hout Bay

Protesting residents of Hangberg opened fire on a police helicopter and attacked tourists, boats and restaurants at Hout Bay harbour yesterday, sparking running battles with police.

A young boy was shot in the mouth at close range when riot police attempted to disperse the group of about 200.

Panicked foreign tourists took refuge inside a waterfront restaurant and about 150 were led to safety along the beach while a group of protesters looted boats in Hout Bay marina.

Witnesses described numerous scuffles at the popular tourist site, including on board one of the Seal Island ferries.

Protesters attempted to set fire to the surrounding mountainside using flares stolen from marina boats, and police claimed flares were fired at a helicopter. Fishermen armed with petrol bombs and rocks said they were angry about a reduction in the rock lobster quota for the six-month fishing season.

"How can we live with 50kg? That's probably R9000 for six months. How are we going to survive?" asked one.

Alexander Plaatjies said fishermen were upset that companies with trawlers were allocated large quotas. He was also upset at the encroachment of private developments on land which "indigenous people" had lived on for generations.

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