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6,073,137 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Workers march against plans to raise the retirement age.
6,073,142 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Demonstrators march to protest an ongoing fuel crisis.
6,073,147 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Students riot to protest against a delay in their book allowances.
6,073,154 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi A top arts group organizes a protest to remember Malawians who died fighting for independence. The march is disrupted by police, who accuse Norway of funding the arts group.
6,073,162 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Students riot after a police officer questions a professor's teachings about the Arab revolutions and their implications for Malawi.
6,073,165 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi Students riot after a police officer questions a professor's teachings about the Arab revolutions and their implications for Malawi.
6,073,172 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Malawians protest because of persistent fuel and foreign exchange shortages, and bad governance. Protests escalate to nationwide rioting; police and military use lethal force.
6,073,181 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi Students hold protests outside a school in Zomba over economic and governance issues. Police use tear gas.
6,073,188 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Activists organize a general strike over economic and governance issues.
6,073,194 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi A riot broke out as police attempted to remove illegal street vendors from the streets of Lilongwe. Police dispersed the crowd with rubber bullets and tear gas, and arrested 18 people.
6,073,204 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Approximately 2000 judicial workers began an indefinite strike to demand that the conditions of a 2006 agreement with parliament that would have given them pay raises in 2006 and 2009. They were able to obtain a 21% pay raise.
6,073,211 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi About 2000 women staged a protest against the recent string of attacks against women wearing trousers by a gang of unemployed young men and apparent street vendors. The gang, which was arrested earlier in the week, would strip and rob women in pants.
6,073,218 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Lawyers marched around the judicial buildings in support of the judicial clerks currently on strike, to demand the pay raises they were promised in 2006 and 2009.
6,073,226 -15.8167 35.049999 Malawi The Public Affairs Committee staged a meeting and protest in a church in Limbe, outside Blantyre to circumvent the ban on their gathering. The protest criticized and called for the resignation of President Bingu wa Mutharika while discussing potential economic and political reforms.
6,073,232 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Hundred of Protesters attacked a police station, beating several officers, after their demonstration was broken up by police with tear gas.
6,073,239 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Hundreds of Malawians gathered at Kamuzu International Airport to see the transportation of the body of the former President Bingu wa Mutharika. He died in South Africa of a heart attack on April 5.
6,073,245 -16.0667 35.133301 Malawi Around 3000 people, mostly Mutharika supporters, attended the funeral of controversial President Bingu was Mutharika, who died of a heart attack on April 5.
6,073,252 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Around 1000 workers at the Australian owned Paladin Energy mine (Malawi's largest) began a strike to demand a 66% pay raise after Malawi devalued its currency by a third.
6,073,260 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Prisoners of the Zomba Central Prison outside Blantyre rioted, disrupting the release of 34 prisoners who had been pardoned by President Banda. Rioters claimed there was a rapist and a murderer among the released prisoners.
6,073,267 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Public workers, including power and water utility workers and university lecturers have been beginning strikes to demand pay raises in reponse to the devaluing of Malawian currency. Power and water utility workers both obtained raises.
6,073,275 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi University of Malawi students rioted in support of lecturers demanding a 113% pay raise. One police officer was injured when hit with a thrown stone, and police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
6,073,283 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Civil Servants went on strike demanding greater wages
6,073,290 -15.48 35.450001 Malawi Children protesting the closure of schools in response to Malawi Civil Servants strike for higher wages
6,073,297 -16.06926 35.140629 Malawi at rally by President Banda in a village (a stronghold of her rival) activists attacked rally goers with stones, police tried to break up crowd with tear gas; government vehicles were attacked and some occupants injured; 1 policeman axed to death and 1 activist shot dead
6,073,305 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi after polling stations opened 10 hours late, anger and speculations about the fairness of the vote led to violence, including the burning of polling stations and snatching of ballot papers in several areas of Blantyre as well as a mini-protest by 50 youths chanting anti-government slogans in the city center; army deployed in response, in one location police fired tear gas
6,073,312 -14.48617 35.2533 Malawi more than a hundred protesters tried to march to local government offices to demand recount of votes, but when stopped by police, began throwing stones; police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, teenager killed by teargas canister
6,073,320 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi more than 1,000 teachers went on strike after not receiving salaries (reported to be one of a series of strikes); education minister said at least 6,600 teachers had not been paid since May
6,073,326 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi about 500 schoolchildren between ages 6 and 12 broke classroom windows and damaged at least 40 cars and marched towards president's home to protest teachers' strike to demand that the government pay their teachers so they can resume teaching; police fired tear gas (no injuries reported by police)
6,073,333 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Around 2,000 people marched in front of the South African High Commission in Lilongwe to protest xenophobic attacks against immigrants in South Africa, which have forced hundreds of Malawians to flee back to Malawi.
6,073,340 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa A 12 week episode of riots, protests, and a strike by 25,000 railway workers over wage increases, pitting black workers against white management.
6,073,351 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Protesters demonstrate against an English cricket team that is defying a ban on sports ties with South Africa. Police attack the crowd with dogs and tear gas.
6,073,357 -28.737801 24.766199 South Africa Hundreds of black activists demonstrate against the English cricket team, which is violating a ban on international sports contracts with South Africa. The protest turns into a riot with demonstrators smashing car and shop windows.
6,073,363 -29.118099 26.223101 South Africa Police fire tear gas at a Roman Catholic church in Bloemfontein to break up 1000 person protest demonstrating against the English cricket team. Police fire tear gas at 1000 black railway workers following a union meeting in Johannesburg.
6,073,366 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Police fire tear gas at a Roman Catholic church in Bloemfontein to break up 1000 person protest demonstrating against the English cricket team. Police fire tear gas at 1000 black railway workers following a union meeting in Johannesburg.
6,073,371 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Thousands of blacks fill the streets of several cities to celebrate announcement of the ANC's legalization and Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
6,073,377 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Right wing assailants shoot out windows at the British embassy in retaliation fro the UK's support of the anti-apartheid reforms.
6,073,383 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Police repress a black protest. Causes are unknown.
6,073,389 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Protests over the presence of the English cricket team, which is playing in South Africa even despite sanctions against it. Police use tear gas.
6,073,395 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Hundreds of black protesters mark the legalization of the ANC. Protest turns violent and police hit them with clubs and use tear gas.
6,073,401 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Throughout the country, tens of thousands march and dance in the streets to celebrate Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
6,073,408 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Black factional violence between the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal province. Nationwide, Indians come under attack by blacks, especially in the area around Durban.
6,073,416 -25.746 28.187099 South Africa 15,000 white Conservative Party supporters protest government decision to free Mandela and legalize the ANC.
6,073,422 -23.365101 31.041901 South Africa Widespread boycott of offices, schools, and businesses leads to clashes in which 25 people are killed. Activists demand that the chief minister of the region resign.
6,073,428 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Supporters of the white anti-apartheid Democratic Party and the black United Democratic Front hold a joint protest to express racial solidarity.
6,073,435 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Police kill two protesters that attack a black community center in Kroonstad. Two people killed in Venda when police disperse a rally. Police arrest people demonstrating outside of Parliament in Cape Town.
6,073,440 -28.8556 30.4527 South Africa Black factional violence in Natal.
6,073,447 -33.923801 18.4233 South Africa Several days of protest in favor of hunger-striking prisoners. Police make many arrests.
6,073,454 -32.869999 26.92 South Africa The army of the Ciskei autonomous region overthrows the authoritarian rule of Lennox Sebe. Oupa Gqozo takes control. The national government supports the coup. Widespread rioting and looting erupts in which 27 die.
6,073,461 -22.9547 30.4184 South Africa Wave of mass strikes and protests against the government of the semi-autonomous Venda region. The protesters demand that Venda be reincorporated into South Africa and that investigations be opened into allegations of ritual murder.
6,073,468 -29.084299 26.4242 South Africa 50,000 protesters march to demand the reintegration of the nominally independent Bophuthatswana region into South Africa. Police fire on the crowd after it sets fire to public buildings and vehicles.
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