SocialConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
6,078,577 -25.93 28.010099 South Africa Protesters riot to protest moves to demolish shacks to make way for sewage lines. Protesters burn police cars and buildings, stone passing cars.
6,078,582 -26.358801 28.133101 South Africa Protesters riot and stone police cars in anger at their dire housing conditions. Police fire rubber bullets.
6,078,587 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa When the mayor of Balfour speaks to a crowd, his convoy is stoned and police use rubber bullets. The protest is over living conditions. About 50 people march in Balfour the next day. In the city of Durban, two grocery stores are looted.
6,078,593 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Municipal workers strike over pay, stage protest marches in several major cities. Several of these marches degenerate into violence and looting.
6,078,596 -33.923801 18.4233 South Africa Municipal workers strike over pay, stage protest marches in several major cities. Several of these marches degenerate into violence and looting.
6,078,599 -23.9123 29.4536 South Africa Municipal workers strike over pay, stage protest marches in several major cities. Several of these marches degenerate into violence and looting.
6,078,604 -25.0882 30.423401 South Africa Protesters block roads, stone a police station, and burn tires in a riot over poor service delivery and dire housing conditions. Police use rubber bullets.
6,078,609 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Demonstrators stone police and block off streets in a protest over lack of service delivery. Police use rubber bullets.
6,078,614 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Workers at the para-statal Telkom strike to demand pay increases.
6,078,620 -25.746 28.187099 South Africa Up to 2000 soldiers stage an illegal march to demand better salaries, they riot and burn a police car and nearly storm the seat of government. Police use water cannons, rubber bullets, and tear gas.
6,078,625 -25.668501 27.242399 South Africa Platinum miners strike over a pay dispute. A protest turns violent and police use rubber bullets.
6,078,631 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Taxi drivers stage a go slow strike to protest the launching of a bus rapid transit system. The next day, two people are injured when shots are fired on a bus from a taxi.
6,078,636 -25.469999 30.98 South Africa Protests begin in Standerton and then spread to Belfast, Sakhile, Diepsloot, and Nelspruit. Protesters throw rocks and torch municipal offices to protest poor living conditions. Police disperse with rubber bullets.
6,078,639 -26.9583 29.2467 South Africa Protests begin in Standerton and then spread to Belfast, Sakhile, Diepsloot, and Nelspruit. Protesters throw rocks and torch municipal offices to protest poor living conditions. Police disperse with rubber bullets.
6,078,642 -26.965599 29.204599 South Africa Protests begin in Standerton and then spread to Belfast, Sakhile, Diepsloot, and Nelspruit. Protesters throw rocks and torch municipal offices to protest poor living conditions. Police disperse with rubber bullets.
6,078,645 -25.93 28.010099 South Africa Protests begin in Standerton and then spread to Belfast, Sakhile, Diepsloot, and Nelspruit. Protesters throw rocks and torch municipal offices to protest poor living conditions. Police disperse with rubber bullets.
6,078,650 -29.4596 22.5651 South Africa Protesters demanding jobs from a mine torch a local library.
6,078,656 -26.260201 27.8664 South Africa Taxi drivers protest, set tires on fire, and block roads. Police use rubber bullets.
6,078,661 -29.803801 30.6348 South Africa Protesters barricade the R50 highway and stone passing cars, torch buildings, and so forth during a service delivery protest. Police arrest 29.
6,078,666 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Municipal workers strike over pay.
6,078,671 -28.868799 31.909901 South Africa Police searching for a fugitive storm a house and shoot a boy inside.
6,078,677 -26.319 26.8228 South Africa A pair of black local farm employees kill Eugene Terre'Blanch, leader of the Afrikaaner Resistance Front, in a dispute over pay at his farm.
6,078,683 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Blacks and whites angrily face off in front of the court house where Eugene Terre'Blanche's killers are charged with murder.
6,078,688 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa 18,000 port and rail workers strike for higher wages.
6,078,695 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Bus drivers strike for a day.
6,078,700 -29.857 31.024799 South Africa A riot erupts as stewards at a World Cup stadium demand higher pay in Durban. Stewards then begin striking. Bus drivers strike after delivering fans to a World Cup match in Johannesburg. World Cup security officials strike in Cape Town.
6,078,704 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa A riot erupts as stewards at a World Cup stadium demand higher pay in Durban. Stewards then begin striking. Bus drivers strike after delivering fans to a World Cup match in Johannesburg. World Cup security officials strike in Cape Town.
6,078,707 -33.923801 18.4233 South Africa A riot erupts as stewards at a World Cup stadium demand higher pay in Durban. Stewards then begin striking. Bus drivers strike after delivering fans to a World Cup match in Johannesburg. World Cup security officials strike in Cape Town.
6,078,713 -29.857 31.024799 South Africa Hundreds protest to demand that the government lavish the same spending on the poor as for the World Cup.
6,078,718 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa A lone gunman assassinates an exiled Rwandan general and opposition leader accused of being behind grenade attacks in his home country.
6,078,725 -33.277901 21.856899 South Africa Seven people are arrested for public violence after weekend looting forces scores of immigrants to abandon their shops.
6,078,731 -31.588499 28.788601 South Africa A mob beats three thieves to death after they steal electrical wiring, causing blackouts. Two others are beaten to death for wearing stolen cloths.
6,078,737 -26.194 28.3578 South Africa Guards shoot and kill four illegal miners.
6,078,743 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, teachers, doctors, nurses, and others strike and protest for higher pay. Riots erupt, and police use rubber bullets.
6,078,749 -33.923801 18.4233 South Africa Squatters throw rocks and set fires to protest police efforts to clear shacks from a Cape Town nature reserve. Police use rubber bullets and live ammunition.
6,078,754 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Police raid apartments linked to a Nigerian man facing terrorism charges, killing one tenant and wounding another.
6,078,761 -25.746 28.187099 South Africa 300 protesters at the Egyptian embassy hold a solidarity demonstration for pro-democracy revolutionaries in Egypt.
6,078,768 -26.5333 29.983299 South Africa Violent strikes and protests occur over the provision of basic services. The protesters burn tires, throw stones, and exchange gunfire with the police.
6,078,771 -26.516701 29.9667 South Africa Violent strikes and protests occur over the provision of basic services. The protesters burn tires, throw stones, and exchange gunfire with the police.
6,078,776 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Truckers stage a stay-away to protest their poor wages.
6,078,781 -33.923801 18.4233 South Africa 25 activists protest outside parliament against corrective rape
6,078,788 -28.872 27.875099 South Africa Protesters decry lack of basic services. The police beat one man to death.
6,078,793 -25.8766 29.201 South Africa Construction works protest, shutting down construction of two coal-fired power plants, to decry the hiring of foreign-born workers.
6,078,799 -25.746 28.187099 South Africa Doctors march to the seat of South Africa's government to protest poor security at public hospitals.
6,078,806 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa 180,000 workers in the oil refining, pharmaceutical, industrial chemical, and engineering industries strike to demand better pay. Strikers march and violently clash with police.
6,078,817 -29.0511 25.2195 South Africa 200,000 municipal workers strike to demand higher wages. Workers march and riot in Cape Town.
6,078,823 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa The ANC Youth League violently protests against the leadership of the ANC party in a dispute over basic service provision and growing inequality.
6,078,829 -25.746 28.187099 South Africa Violence erupts in squatter apartments over lack of housing.
6,078,834 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa The ANC Youth League organizes a march to demand jobs.
6,078,839 -26.2015 28.0455 South Africa Police fire shots to break up a protest by supporters of the opposition of DRC's government.