Police fire rubber bullets on strikers in South Africa

In South Africa, violence has broken out on the second day of a strike by hundreds of thousands of public sector workers.

Police used rubber bullets to disperse striking teachers who tried to block a stretch of the main highway that runs through Johannesburg.

About 1.3 million workers began an open-ended strike on Wednesday demanding higher pay and an increase in housing allowance.

Protestors have seen picketing outside hospitals, schools and government buildings.

BBC Focus on Africa's Peter Ndoro asked our Johannesburg reporter, Nomsa Maseko to confirm that police used force to control the demonstrators.