Tag: service delivery protests
900 service delivery protests in South Africa over six months
South Africa recorded more than 900 service delivery protests in six months from August to January, according to Minister of Police Bheki Cele, as...
13 000 protests a year stretching police capacity
An indication of South Africans' unhappiness with the lack of service delivery from, among others, local authorities and employers, comes with the...
Turbulence in S.Africa’s townships clouds ANC’s re-election drive
In many countries, protesters throwing rocks, torching government buildings and blocking roads with burning tyres on an almost daily basis would strike...
ISS: Getting to the bottom of what really drives public violence...
This year started badly for the South African Police Service (SAPS) given that by the end of January 2014, more than ten...
Crowd control is one of the SAPS’s most important functions –...
With the increasing number of service delivery protests and the increasingly violent nature of protests in South Africa, policing crowds has become...
Cabinet again decries protest violence
South Africa's Cabinet says people had the right to protest but it adds this cannot be an excuse for violence and criminality....
