NUMBER OF VIOLENT PROTESTS ‘DOUBLED’

By Wyndhan Hartley –

WHILE service delivery protests have remained largely constant over the past three years, the number that have turned violent has more than doubled, Parliament’s police committee was told on Wednesday.

The quality of public order policing in the South African Police Service (SAPS) shot to prominence after the killing of Ficksburg service delivery activist Andries Tatane in 2011 and the shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012.

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