| 5,827,596 |
-32.84573 |
27.991 |
South Africa |
|
Parents began protesting in front of Kwelera Public School to demand a Grade 1 teacher for their children. |
| 5,827,600 |
-25.46667 |
30.96667 |
South Africa |
|
Parents marched to the Mpumalanga Department of Education Offices in Nelspruit over the closing of a local school |
| 5,827,605 |
-34.01667 |
18.55 |
South Africa |
|
Police, the City of Cape Town Anti-Land Invasion Unit and law enforcement officials were pelted with rocks after shacks on an open field in the Marikana informal settlement in Philippi were demolished; authorities responded by firing rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse an angry crowd. A council official leading the demolition was assaulted and chased by a resident whose shack was torn down |
| 5,827,610 |
-34.17033 |
22.09243 |
South Africa |
|
Southern Cape police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a 3 000-strong crowd in KwaNonqaba in Mossel Bay; this was after the protesters had torched a municipal building, set fire to a school, stoned cars on the N2 highway, and damaged police vehicles; this occurred days before a by-election |
| 5,827,617 |
-28.73333 |
24.76667 |
South Africa |
|
A heavy police contingent kept a watchful eye as about 200 singing students barricaded the road and the entrance to Galeshewe campus of the National Institute of Higher Education (NIHE); they were protesting over an announcement that the institution would be phased out; police used rubber bullets and arrested some students for public violence |
| 5,827,620 |
-33.92528 |
18.42389 |
South Africa |
|
A small group of people protested outside the District Six Museum to voice their unhappiness with Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) |
| 5,827,627 |
-23.01473 |
30.47961 |
South Africa |
|
Hundreds of Muvhavha Secondary School pupils held their principal hostage during a two-day strike in Tswinga village near Thohoyandou; the students threw rocks on the school roof and barricaded the gate, preventing their principal from leaving his office; police were called in to rescue the principal but no arrests were made |
| 5,827,633 |
-33.9 |
18.63333 |
South Africa |
|
Police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse an angry crowd after arioterupted on the steps of the Bellville Magistrate's Court where the "poo protesters" began their trial; there were reports of injuries |
| 5,827,638 |
-34.17033 |
22.09243 |
South Africa |
|
Protests continued in a Mossel Bay township over service delivery; police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse small crowds again. Protesters burned tires and threw stones. |
| 5,827,643 |
-25.46667 |
30.96667 |
South Africa |
|
Pupils protested outside Trichardtfontein Combined School because it remained closed; they blockaded parts of the N17 highway |
