ARTICLES RELATING TO
PROTESTS
Cabinet will send a delegation of ministers to Marikana in the North West to calm renewed unrest, acting Minister in the Presidency Edna Molewa says.
Twenty-eight protesters have been released on bail of R500 each by the Piet Retief Magistrate's Court.
Death threats were hurled at a police videographer in Marikana by striking mineworkers, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry has been told.
Shots have been fired inside the Wonderkop Stadium, in Marikana, while striking miners were gathering for a meeting.
An early-warning system is in place to alert law enforcement officials to potentially violent protests, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says.
Mpumalanga Community Safety MEC Vusi Shongwe has welcomed the arrest of 23 people for public violence, during service delivery protests in Thandukukhanya township in Piet Retief.
Protests in Gauteng are diverting police resources away from fighting crime, provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Mzwandile Petros says.
Police have fired rubber bullets to disperse residents protesting at an informal settlement in Kliptown.
Satawu members have begun moving into the Peter Roos Park, in Johannesburg for a march in demand of higher wages for bus drivers.
KwaDukuza commuters have barricaded roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest at the lack of taxis in the area.
A protest by Tshwane metro police officers was illegal, executive director Console Tleane says.
Members of the Tshwane metro police have reportedly spent Workers' Day protesting against a new shift system.
The SA Democratic Teachers' Union has criticised the conduct of some of its members during a protest march.
The ANC Women’s League has come out in support of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga following Sadtu's call for her and her director general Bobby Soobrayan to resign.
Lectures have been disrupted at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Edgewood campus in Pinetown, when about 300 students protested.
