| 5,824,585 |
-26.08577 |
27.77515 |
South Africa |
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A group of Krugersdorp residents protest mining activity in the area, believing it was destroying their houses. Reports of shots fired, one arrest reported. |
| 5,824,589 |
-26.08577 |
27.77515 |
South Africa |
|
Krugersdorp residents protest mining activity in their area for a second day. Many roads on the area were blocked with burning tires and stones. The situation was calm on the third day, though many area streets remained blocked. |
| 5,824,593 |
-26.23656 |
28.36938 |
South Africa |
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Dozens of people, most of them wearing pink T-shirts, gathered outside the Brakpan Magistrate's Court ahead of the appearance of a man accused of raping and killing his four-year-old niece. The group was demanding a reinstitution of the death penalty. |
| 5,824,598 |
-25.74486 |
28.18783 |
South Africa |
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Street vendors attack police after an officer shot and killed a fellow vendor during a botched arrest. |
| 5,824,603 |
-25.74486 |
28.18783 |
South Africa |
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A group of street hawkers protest outside a Pretoria court during a hearing for a fellow vendor charged with public violence for battling police officers after the killing of a fellow trader during a botched arrest. Several protesters threw stones at nearby police officer and looted a passing food cart. It is reported that a number of protesters filled the courtroom during the hearing. |
| 5,824,607 |
-34.03627 |
23.04713 |
South Africa |
|
A group of animal rights activists protest a travelling circus. |
| 5,824,612 |
-28.6207 |
31.09067 |
South Africa |
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ANC supporters and members protest an Economic Freedom Fighters event in Nkandla. The reason for the protest is not clear, though it is known the EFF group was constructing low-cost housing structures near a residence of President Zuma (ANC). |
| 5,824,616 |
-25.63473 |
27.78022 |
South Africa |
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Service delivery protesters demonstrate against poor water supply. |
| 5,824,620 |
-33.97846 |
18.4481 |
South Africa |
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Following the destruction of shacks by metro police, residents, numbering 100, protested the destruction in the streets, burning tries and throwing stones at passing cars. No injuries reported. |
| 5,824,625 |
-25.63473 |
27.78022 |
South Africa |
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Four service delivery protesters are shot; two dead, in Brits, outside Pretoria. The one of the wounded later dies in hospital. The demonstrators, protesting poor water supply in the area, which had been out for a week, gathered for a second day of demonstrations. Though the protests were described as "violent", some witnesses claim police brutality. Later, it was learned that one of the deaths occurred after police pushed a protesters out of a moving vehicle. Several labour unions condemned the killings. |
