Mangaung Shutdown: Protest called off after emergency meeting The Mangaung Shutdown is off after Free State Premier Sefora Ntombela met with protest leaders in an emergency meeting. The situation in the metro remains tense. The Mangaung Shutdown protest has officially been called off after the Premier of the Free State Sefora Ntombela and the provincial Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) met with protest leaders in an emergency meeting on Tuesday afternoon, 17 May. The South African Police Service (SAPS) said, on Wednesday, that 70 people have been arrested since the prote...