The residents of the Elias Motsoaledi squatter camp in Johannesburg apparently had enough and started protesting by making the only route to Lanseria International Airport impassable. Burning tires, stones and bricks in the only route on Monday blocked the way to the airport, and vehicles that dared to face the barricades went under the residents’..
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African barbarism intensifies throughout SA – Protests, riots and arson are the order of the day when Bantu can’t get what they want
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1 000ha of Limpopo farmland burnt in protest action – six farms near Vaalharts set alight by angry community members after cellphone tower collapse- savages choose cellphone communication over food security
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It has been estimated that as much as 1 000ha of farmland near the town of Alma in Limpopo have been destroyed after allegedly being set alight during a community protest this week. According to head of community safety at Afriforum, Ian Cameron, residents of the township outside Alma, near Vaalharts in Limpopo, were protesting..
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Angry students disrupt lectures and blockaded the main entrance to the Westville campus by burning furniture and debris over registrations
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The student representatives council (SCR) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is expected to meet the institution’s vice-chancellor on Friday.
This follows disruptions at the university’s Westville campus on Wednesday. Angry students disrupted lectures and blockaded the main entrance to the university by burning furniture and debris.
The executive director for corporate relations at UKZN, Ashton Bodrick, confirmed that the university remained open and that academic programmes would continue as scheduled, despite further protests by students on Thursday.
“Some students on the Westville campus continued with their protest action this morning. We have received reports that some lectures were disrupted. The executive management committee (EMC) has given due consideration to the matters raised by the students and is engaging the SRC leadership on a way forward.”
UKZN SRC president Sanele Hlongwa told TimesLIVE that calm had been restored at the university
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Township Alexandria, where most residents are supporters of ANC regime, is yet again protesting over no service delivery
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The protesters in Alexandria are at it again, they started blocking roads by throwing burning tires on access routes. Traffic has been disrupted while prospective car rental workers have been hurled out of vehicles to prevent them from working. The ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has already set up an inter-ministerial task team in April to..
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Illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers who downed tools, caused R3.5m damage in municipal infrastructure
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The total cost of damage to infrastructure as a result of the illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers exceeds R3.5m, KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies Mchunu has revealed.
Mchunu was addressing journalists at the department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) offices in Mayville, Durban.
“The cost of the damage to date is over R3.5m for eThekwini municipal infrastructure. This excludes impact on the economy, which is still being quantified, and the cost of hiring privately owned water tankers where reservoirs and valves had been tampered with.
“We are informed that 90% of the water services have been restored,” he said.
Mchunu said the protests had affected international guests who had been in the city for the annual Tourism Indaba, Africa’s biggest tourism event which showcases the continent as a good place for business and leisure tourism.
“We now have a situation where hotels housing international guests are without water. On
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Dissatisfied municipal workers bring Durban CBD to a halt by obstructing streets with waste
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Durban’s central business area was brought to a halt when Durban Waste Removal Agency workers blocked the streets with solid waste.
Waste trucks full of garbage were used to dump into the streets. The action is in protest against raising old MK members salaries in the department.
MK members ‘salaries are apparently increased from R9,000 to R20,000 and it appears that several departments in the Durban municipality are following the same policy regarding MK members’ remuneration, but observers reckon MK members serving are working much less than the other workers.
Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
Land Grab in progress! Yet, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa once again said that “Land Grabbing has not happened in South Africa?
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The N2 highway between Somerset West and Cape Town is in chaos as alleged “land grabbers” have taken to the streets, burning tyres, setting vehicles alight and pelting cars with stones on Thursday morning. The N2 outbound is reportedly closed to traffic at Somerset West Main and the N2 inbound is closed to traffic at..
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Angry students at Limpopo University temporarily suspended academic activities – Students now demand a campus campus bar so they can imbibe in a safe environment
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Students have called for a bar to be opened at the University of Limpopo so they can imbibe in a safe environment. Academic activities at the University of Limpopo were temporarily suspended on Wednesday after protesting students demanded, among other things, a “student bar” where they could imbibe in a safe environment. “We’re saying we..
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South Africa needs more people like Eckard Binding- Businessman from Pretoria donates scholarship to student who picked up EFF-trash during protest action at university
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A businessman in Pretoria has donated a scholarship to the student who picked up the EFF litter during protest action on the campus of the University of the Free State. Pretoria FM News reported that an anonymous businessman from Mangaung Metro saw the video of student, Eckard Binding, who continued to throw the junk back..
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All five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended after ongoing student protests
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Lectures at all five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended due to ongoing student protests.
Opinion polls believe it is time for government to include higher education institutions that are unproductive and destructive.
Meanwhile, seven students have been arrested at the Mongosuthu University of Technology in Durban for damage to property.
The vandalism at Durban’s educational institutions has led to chaos over the past month, and many students have sustained injuries after they hit the police.
The original article can be read in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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University of Natal in Serious Crisis – students are setting vehicles on fire and destroying infrastructure built up by the former government – all classes are suspended until further notice
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All classes at the University of Natal were suspended until further notice the many protest actions of students.
A vehicle was set on fire during the protest and peaceful lecturers and learners felt unsafe on campus.
Academic activities have been characterized by ongoing violence, protests and property damage in recent years.
On Monday, Wits University was in chaos when a lot of students disrupted classes, and it is expected to move further to other universities in the country.
Police said no arrests had been made following violent protests at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) campuses on Monday in which two vehicles and a guard house were set alight by students.
South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson in KwaZulu-Natal, Colonel Thembeka Mbele, told African News Agency (ANA) that to her knowledge, no arrests had been made.
Students at universities in the province have called for a total shutdown of institutions from Monday, the official start
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South Africa: “Violence is the only language our government understands”
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Residents of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape blocked the R61 to Cofimvaba demanding that the provincial government fix their roads. They closed the busy road with burning tyres, stones and trees, demanding a meeting with Eastern Cape transport MEC Weziwe Tikana. The protest started at 3am and went on until lunchtime. School transport and taxis..
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What is really happening in Hermanus and elsewhere in South Africa?
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Hermanus in the Western Cape still resembles a scene from a horror movie with ongoing violence, intimidation and political upheaval and it is calculated that damages are now approaching R50 million. When speaking to residents however, you realise that there is much more to the story than what the media reports. Even more than the..
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N2 protest: Burning tyres and confusion brings Durban drivers to a halt
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Durban drivers on the N2 were left stranded in a massive traffic backlog on Tuesday morning. Protesters blocked part of the busy highway with burning tyres just one day after rubbish was dumped in a similar area.
The N2 Durban bound was the area in question on Tuesday morning. A similar incident also took place in the uMbongintwini area.
“Police have an idea of who could have done this and arrests are expected to be made. Tyres were placed across all the lanes and then set alight. This has caused a severe traffic backlog. Vehicles had to be diverted from the N2 in Isipingo onto the M4,” Sewpersad said.
With a blockage of that scale, drivers had been attempting to utilise the emergency lanes to get past the tyres, an act police have urged motorists not to partake in.
When the fire department arrives on the scene, it has been unable to use the emergency lanes to put out the fire and remove the debris.
At this stage, police have admitted that they are n
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Public service workers to strike
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Public service workers plan to put down their pens and wheelbarrows and stop work on Monday, June 11th.
This after wage negotiations failed.
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