source: Citizen (South Africa); Daily News (South Africa); Herald (South Africa)
actor1: Rioters (South Africa)
actor2: Police Forces of South Africa (1994-) Prison Guards
location: Gqeberha
notes: On 5 May 2020, inmates set alight their sheets and a kitchen at St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape), demanding court dates, the removal of an official at the prison, and cigarettes that had been banned under level 4 of the national coronavirus lockdown. Guards fired warning shots during their response. [size=no report]