Tag: service delivery
South African state television stops showing violent protests video
South Africa's state-owned broadcaster will stop showing violent anti-government protests flaring up around the country, triggering accusations it was protecting the ruling...
Schools burn as protesters vent anger ahead of South Africa local...
Angry residents have torched 19 schools in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, protesting a change in municipal boundaries which they say is...
Protesters burn schools in South Africa’s Limpopo province
Protesters, angered by a change in municipal boundaries which they fear will leave them worse off for social services, torched 13 schools...
ISS: Desperate and divided – South Africa has had enough
Increasingly, South Africans from all walks of life are mobilising for change. Many resort to public protest in the hope of galvanising...
South Africa police fire rubber bullets to disperse power protesters
South African police fired rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse angry demonstrators who set tyres alight while protesting against what they called...
Service delivery protest turns violent
Police fired rubber bullets at protestors in Zenzele, Ekurhuleni, after running battles with residents protesting the lack of electricity and other services.
Residents...
South Africa has the ingredients for Arab Spring style protests; will...
South Africa has all the basic ingredients for the type of dissatisfaction that could lead to highly contagious anti-government protests of the...
Poor young South Africans lose faith in ageing leaders
Clashes between youth members of the ruling ANC and police last week are signs that millions of unemployed young South Africans do...
An end to violent protests by 2014 mooted
Government wants to see the back of violent service delivery protests by 2014. That emerged from Cabinet's administrative cluster...
Protests not just about service delivery: SAIRR
Service delivery shortcomings as commonly understood are only secondary factors in many of the protests in the last year, an analysis in...
SA Army Engineers building Bailey bridges in E Cape
The South African Army's Engineer Corps this weekend started construction of the first of three Bailey bridges in the rural Eastern Cape...
Home Affairs turnaround disputed
Five years after it introduced its turnaround strategy, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is still plagued by skills shortages, financial mismanagement, funding challenges...