Imam Rashied of Claremont Main Road mosque (thanks @suhairsolomon) tries to explain to a metro cop - probably surprised to find himself facing off against a series of the Cape’s religious leaders (including anti-apartheid hero, Allan Boesak - over whose shoulder the imam is pointing) that the activity is around a celebration of the sacrifices made by Khoi pastoralists who were the first to shed blood against colonial raiders, and who were the first to have their land usurped right here in Observatory.
No doubt his bosses in the city feared the crowd was there to tear down the River Club for which the city has pushed through an environmentally destructive development which will host today’s giant capitalist behemoth - Amazon. Much as the Dutch and British East India companies were in the 17th C.