The Purple Rain Protest, Purple Rain Revolt or Purple Rain Riot was an anti-apartheid protest held in Cape Town on 2 September 1989, four days before South Africa's racially segregated parliament held its elections. A police water cannon with purple dye was turned on thousands of Mass Democratic Movement supporters who poured into the city in an attempt to march on South Africa's Parliament. White office blocks adjacent to Greenmarket Square were sprayed purple four stories high as a protester leapt onto the roof of the water cannon vehicle, seized the nozzle and attempted to turn the jet away from the crowds.
Als Purple Rain Protest oder Purple Rain March (deutsch etwa: „Protest oder Marsch im violetten Regen“) wird eine polizeilich niedergeschlagene Demonstration bezeichnet, die am 2. September 1989 in Kapstadt, Südafrika stattfand.
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