UCT students who were involved in an occupation of the universitys administrative building have vacated the premises, with one student saying the group wanted to avoid litigation processes after being served a court order. On Friday, News24 reported that a group of between 50-70 University of Cape Town (UCT) students[…]
A series of small anti-Islam rallies have been held across Australia, with police reportedly forced to intervene to separate protesters from rival, anti-racism demonstrators in the city of Melbourne. Between 500-800 people gathered in the pouring rain in Martin Square in Sydney’s central business district on Saturday for one of[…]
Numsa members working at the Medupi power station in Lephalale, Limpopo, marched against Eskom demanding better working conditions, the union said on Wednesday. “We call on Eskom to respond to the demands of workers,” the union’s collective bargaining head Steve Nhlapo said in a statement. The National Union of Metalworkers[…]
Shiite rebels backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized Yemen’s third largest city of Taiz and its airport on Sunday, security and military officials said, as thousands took to the streets in protest. If the rebels hold onto the city, the capital of Yemen’s most populous province,[…]
The community of Mitchell’s Plain said that they have yet to find a solution to their grievances with the informal dwellers in the Siqalo informal settlement. Speaking on behalf of the newly established committee, Pastor Frankiln Williams said that a meeting held this past Sunday didn’t yield as much successes[…]
South Africa’s violent protests reached an all-time high in 2014, according to a report by the Multilevel Government Initiative at the Community Law Centre, released on Thursday. “Both the number of civic protests and the prevalence of violence increased in 2014,” the centre said in a statement. “In 2007 just[…]
What happened to Germany’s anti-Islam movement PEGIDA? After bursting into the limelight last year with weekly rallies that drew first hundreds, then tens of thousands, the group appears to have lost momentum. A month ago, 25,000 marched through the eastern city of Dresden, brandishing signs that read “stop multiculturalism” and[…]
An Egyptian court on Monday condemned 183 men to hang for the lynchings of 11 police officers by rioters in August 2013. The condemned were found guilty of an attack on a police station on the western outskirts of Cairo in apparent retaliation for the deadly dispersal by police of[…]
Anti-Islam and anti-refugee protesters are expected to take to the streets across Germany on Monday, hoping to boost their ranks after last week’s attacks in Paris. The weekly demonstrations organized by Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, have been steadily swelling since they were launched about[…]
Chinese state-run media Friday triumphantly declared the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement “defeated”, warning domestic and foreign “hostile forces” against destabilising the city. “The defeat of the ‘umbrella revolution’ has also sent a clear message to hostile forces — both local and overseas,” the government-published China Daily said in an editorial.[…]
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