Furious Soweto residents have vowed to make the township ungovernable until the Premier of Gauteng addresses them on poor service delivery.
Interest has waned in the slain activist, but anger about township neglect simmers on, writes Sipho Kings.
Local politics may be fraught with animosity, but they are essential for effective governance, writes Gregory Mthembu-Salter.
Don’t be fooled by the genteel silence in the quaint Free State town of Parys — there are many unchecked emotions rumbling beneath the surface.
After missing six months of schooling Northern Cape education department officials have decided that pupils in Olifantshoek will repeat 2012.
The outrage over Eskom’s request to raise tariffs may be better directed at wasteful municipalities, writes Phillip de Wet.
Professor Daniel Plaatjies is quite correct to draw attention to the need to professionalise the public administration, writes Paul Hoffman.
Angry Northern Cape communities argue that closing schools is in the learners’ best interests.
Cape Town shack dwellers’ anger is about a lack of service delivery and is not politically motivated.
Protests have plagued Cape Town for years, but now they’ve begun to bleed out of township boundaries and into spaces that affect the middle class.
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says there is no need for illegal protests when ANC councillors are meant to represent residents in government.
The Cape Times has reported a man died and a truck was torched during service delivery protests in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Eight people have been arrested in Cape Town after Khayelitsha residents burnt tyres and stoned vehicles in service delivery protests.
According to a recent study by Wits University, ANC members have played a leading role in most protests across the country.
In Kagiso, as in so many other settlements in South Africa, time moves on but the appalling conditions persist. Heidi Swart reports.
Police say there is no sign of protesters in Kagiso in the West Rand the morning after a service delivery protest turned violent in the area.
Social grants haven’t kept pace with electricity hikes in South Africa — and this will be the main cause of a rise in service delivery protests.
The Ratanda township was calm on Wednesday morning but staff removed expensive medicines from the clinic for fear of further protests and arson.
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/ 30 September 2011
Fifty-two people were arrested during a service-delivery protest in Tembisa on Friday, Gauteng police said.
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/ 19 September 2011
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse a service delivery protest in Tembisa after about 2 000 residents threw bottles and stones at police.
Residents of the Thembelihle are again up in arms following allegations that the police used live ammunition to break up their protests.
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/ 7 September 2011
Protesting residents of Thembelihle set fire to three load centres, causing damage of R1.5-million during this week’s service delivery protests.
A heavy police contingent remained in Thembelihle, south of Johannesburg, on Wednesday after violent service delivery protests swept the area.
Divisions at the local level of the ANC are among the chief factors fuelling service delivery protests.
Politicians, not the police, should be sent to defuse service delivery protests in disillusioned communities, says former Cabinet minister Jay Naidoo.
Diepkloof in Soweto was quiet on Saturday morning after protesters blocked off roads and set tyres on fire because of electricity cuts.
Police brutality has become more prevalent at service delivery protests in the past two years, the Independent Complaints Directorate said on Tuesday.
Police shot rubber bullets at protesters in Noordgesig, near Soweto, on Friday, the National Association for the Advancement of Affected People said.
South Africa’s 8Â 500 crowd-control police officers will get a refresher course in handling protests, says top cop General Bheki Cele.
A crowd gathered outside a Ficksburg court in the Free State on Monday for the appearance of six policemen accused of killing a protester.
At least 14 police officers were being questioned in connection with the death of a man during service delivery protests in Meqheleng.
The death of a protester in Setsoto, Ficksburg, on Wednesday, apparently at the hands of riot police, is not an isolated incident.