SowetanLive reports that according to a research report launched on Tuesday at the University of Johannesburg, just under half the protests recorded by police between 1997 and 2013 were labour protests.  

This was followed by community protests‚ which make up a little less than a quarter of police-recorded protests in the time period.  The research uses data on “crowd incidents” recorded by the SA Police Service (SAPS) in its Incident Registration Information System (IRIS) to assess and analyse protests in the country.  The report concedes‚ however‚ that the use of police records cannot provide an accurate analysis of what protests have been about as determining the focus of a protest required a reading of the incident “notes“.

• Read this report by Roxanne Henderson in full at SowetanLive
• Read too, Strikes are king when it comes to protests, at TimesLive

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