Students backing Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi have stormed the administrative offices of a state-run university in Cairo.
French authorities on Saturday found that police could have acted with more caution when detaining the school girl.
The Red October march against black-on-white violence, led by Steve Hofmeyr and Sunette Bridges, took place in Pretoria. Here’s what happened.
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The Saturday standoff outside a mosque included exchanges of fire, as the death toll from four days of violence surpassed 750.
Anti-government demonstrators briefly invaded a council building in Rio de Janeiro in the latest in a wave of protests that have hit Brazil.
Chile’s riot police have fired water cannons and hurled tear gas at protesters in downtown Santiago.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of Sao Paulo to protest poor public services, police violence and government corruption.
Three European activists with radical women’s protest group Femen have been handed four-month jail sentences by a Tunisian court.
Satawu union members marched through the streets of Jo’burg to demand a wage increase for bus drivers.
Labour Day – or May Day – has triggered protests against harsh government spending cuts around the world, with some demonstrations turning violent.
Sadtu expects about 25 000 of its members to take part in Wednesday’s march to pressure basic education’s minister and director general to resign.
Despite a minister’s promise to halt the municipal merger, protesters in Zamdela say their strike will continue until the government listens.
Cosatu has been deciding whether to go ahead with a planned protest at the Swartruggens toll gate on the N4.
It was gridlock on Gauteng’s highways as Cosatu led a drive-slow in protest of the controversial e-tolling system.
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Thousands of protesters besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, hurling rocks at the building as police struggled to keep control.
This week Equal Education marched through the streets of Tembisa to mobilise the community in its fight for fair and quality education.
Tension is mounting southwest of Durban in Umlazi’s ward 88, where activists say the police are randomly arresting people and firing live ammunition.
In what turned out to be a peaceful march on the Goodman Gallery, ANC leaders celebrated how the show of support for Jacob Zuma won them the battle.
While ANC supporters took to court to voice their dissent about the controversial painting of the president, two men defaced the work at the Goodman Gallery.
Township toilets are being enclosed but municipalities lack a maintenance plan.
Media organizations have come together in the black ribbon campaign to stop the worrying Protection of State Information Bill. Watch our call to action.
Thousands of Cosatu members and supporters took to the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday to oppose e-tolling and labor broking.
The ANCYL will roll out mass action throughout the country for free education, youth employment and "economic freedom in our lifetime".
Johannesburg’s metro police met the organisers of a march against education inequalities this week and have approved the march.
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A protest by disgruntled police reservists briefly turned violent in Johannesburg on Monday when police fired rubber bullets.