The Mangaung shutdown protests, organised by a group identified as the Mangaung Concerned Community, began on Sunday, 16 May when the group rallied various communities in the metro to join the city-wide demonstration.
By Tuesday morning about 15 areas had become part of the protest action, said Kabelo Selogile, a committee member of the Mangaung Community Concern. “When you are poor in South Africa, the only way to get politicians to hear our concerns as communities is if you protest,” said a resident of the Gatvol informal settlement during service delivery protests in Mangaung. “Gatvol” means totally fed up/had enough in English.frustration with service delivery failures resulted in 585 incidents of public protest between January 2013 and April 2021, 378 of which turned violent.
The xenophobic attacks on foreigners and their businesses are fuelled by the misguided perception that foreigners are reducing economic opportunities for South Africans.Police arrested several people who were looting a foreign-owned bottle store in Batho township. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick
The Free State is teeming with unfinished development projects and vandalised and abandoned government buildings. Raw sewage flows in the streets of many townships, even in the Bloemfontein CBD. With the coming 2021 local government elections, many residents are wary that their vulnerabilities can be exploited when politicians campaign for votes.He said none of the promises made during the 2016 local election have been fulfilled. These included installing temporary sanitation facilities for the informal settlement and eventually relocating its residents to better housing in 2017.
You vote for the government you want. Great form of protest vote for someone else.
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