| 5,823,797 |
-33.90446 |
18.65654 |
South Africa |
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NUMSA protests for two days in Stikland during a motor service industry strike. |
| 5,823,802 |
-34.0472 |
18.49863 |
South Africa |
|
A 55-year-old petrol station attendant is beaten to death by a group of NUMSA strikers. |
| 5,823,807 |
-26.1625 |
27.8725 |
South Africa |
|
A female bystander is shot and wounded in violence related to taxi strikes. The intended target of the perpetrator is believed to be a taxi driver. The shooting came a day after a Diepsloot man was wounded after taxi drivers in the area went on strike. |
| 5,823,812 |
-34.06405 |
18.76334 |
South Africa |
|
Members of the striking National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) invaded a sand mine in Macassar early in the day, overpowered two security guards, assaulted them and torched three diggers and an excavator. The attack was likely strike/labour related. |
| 5,823,818 |
-33.92528 |
18.42389 |
South Africa |
|
Nineteen members of the Social Justice Coalition were arrested after chaining themselves to railings outside Cape Town civic centre. The demonstration had been arranged in an attempt to get Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille to find a solution to the growing sanitation concerns in Khayelitsha. |
| 5,823,822 |
-25.60636 |
27.94581 |
South Africa |
|
Parents, unhappy of the news of a school merger affecting their children, protest outside its entrance after they were denied a reversal in the ruling. |
| 5,823,827 |
-26.26667 |
27.86667 |
South Africa |
|
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters who took to the streets in Johannesburg in anger over the lack of government services. The protesters burnt tires in the street and threw rocks at police. |
| 5,823,832 |
-26.28434 |
27.79481 |
South Africa |
|
Residents of Waterworks (Waterwack) informal settlement in Zuurbekom took to the streets as early as 3am to protest poor service delivery. The protesters burned tires and threw rocks at police. A total of 176 people were arrested for public violence and malicious damage to property. |
| 5,823,836 |
-26.2861 |
27.84099 |
South Africa |
|
Residents of Waterworks (Waterwack) informal settlement in Zuurbekom took to the streets in Protea, rioting in protest poor service delivery. Tires set alight, roads barricaded and rocks were reportedly thrown. |
| 5,823,840 |
-26.26667 |
27.86667 |
South Africa |
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Residents of Waterworks (Waterwack) informal settlement in Zuurbekom took to the streets in Soweto, rioting in protest poor service delivery. Tires set alight, roads barricaded and rocks were reportedly thrown. |
