The plant has already been the focus of large-scale protests by green activists.

But it was thwarted by large-scale protests which made it impossible to push the new law through parliament.

Riots and large-scale protests had broken out before the elections in certain townships around the country.

In 1999 and 2000, large-scale protests reversed the privatisation of the city's water supply.

They were released before the end of their sentence when large-scale protests against what was alleged to be an inhumane and illegal incarceration swept the country.