Hill Lewis published a video showing how the city’s law enforcement officials used a drone to track and apprehend a smash-and-grab thief in Elsies River…
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leads the Purple Rain Protest (1989): On September 2, 1989, anti-apartheid protesters marched through downtown Cape Town, where police responded with a water cannon spraying purple dye to mark activists for arrest. Protesters seized the nozzle and sprayed the historic Town House building purple instead. The image of the “purple city”—coupled with Archbishop Desmond Tutu leading a peaceful march of 30,000 people days later—captured worldwide headlines and coined the slogan “The Purple Shall Govern.”
