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Factors influencing community protests in the Mbizana MunicipalityNwafor, Christopher Ugochukwu January 2016 (has links)
Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters: Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016. / Protests are an integral part of many social, political and economic activities in societies all over the world, and the concept of protest is an on-going subject of scholarly endeavour. The occurrence of protests in South Africa, however, highlights significant deficit in meeting the huge expectations from a formerly disadvantaged majority of the population. Furthermore, the current preponderance of protest incidents in the Eastern Cape Province, and particularly in the Mbizana Local Municipality proffered the motive for this research.
The incidence of protests in the study area, in most cases, has been attributed to poor service delivery and the high expectations for improved social and economic development. While issues related to the delivery of basic services are attended to, the continued occurrence and increasing intensity of these protest incidents, has led to the argument that other factors are also at play.
Using a mixed methods approach, the study employed a questionnaire survey to elicit information linked to the incidence of protests. Two hundred and eighty respondents from three selected wards in the local municipality were randomly sampled, and three municipal officials were also interviewed to explore the factors influencing protest incidents in the study area.
Findings from the study point to the profusion of unresolved community complaints coupled with slow- paced provision of services, intra-party disagreements among political factions in the municipal council, and crime-related incidents; as factors responsible for protests in the local municipality. The study shows the preponderance of disagreements among political party members as a leading cause for protest incidents, unrelated to the provision of basic services. Also, the demand for justice among victims of criminal incidents was found to be another reason for the increasing number of protest events in the Mbizana Local Municipality. / M
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Stories of city strife in Johannesburg: agonism in local democracy and service deliveryPernegger, Li January 2016 (has links)
This thesis has been submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016 / This study assesses agonism's practical possibilities for constructive, rather than destructive, outcomes arising from state-society strife, by drawing on the case of the Johannesburg city administration. / GR2017
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The rationale of violent public protests in South Africa 's globally-acclaimed democratic dispensationNembambula, Phophi January 2015 (has links)
Thesis (M. Dev. (Development & Management)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015 / The manifestation of violence during the constitutionally protected protest action is
highly questionable and unexpected feature of, the democratic dispensation in South
Africa. Moreover, the right to protest is provided with strong restrictions to violence.
Literature has publicised the reasons advanced for these fierce violent public protests
dominating the democratic state and they are amid the lack of service delivery,
maladministration and political squabbles. However, the geographic area of the
protests questions the legitimacy of the so called service delivery protests.
Notwithstanding, the recent statistics that show an upward increase in the accessibility
of basic services by South Africans. Thus, this study dismisses the idea that the fierce
public protests are as a result of a lack of service delivery, maladministration or political
squabbles. Considering the location of the protests which is mostly in informal
settlements close to metropolitan cities where some services have been provided.
Whereas, the rural communities that receive very minimal, and to some extent no
services have recorded very few protests linked to service delivery. Therefore, this
study locates the violent public protests in the demonstration effect due to the
geographical area and the advanced influence of media. The study used scholarship
analysis to scrutinise the textual data gathered on the rationale underlying the violent
public protests in South Africa’s globally-acclaimed democratic dispensation.
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Ideology and agency in protest politics : service delivery struggles in post-apartheid South Africa.Ngwane, Trevor. January 2011 (has links)
My aim in this dissertation is to explore the manner in which protest leaders in the post-apartheid
context understand themselves and their actions against the backdrop of the socio-historical,
political and economic conditions within which protests take place. The aim is to
contribute to the debate around the nature of the challenge posed by protest action to the
post-apartheid neoliberal order. The study uses an actor-oriented ethnographic methodology
to examine at close range the nature of the protest movement in working class South African
townships focusing on the so-called service delivery protests. In the quest to understand the
action, forms of organisation and ideologies characteristic of the protests, and their significance
for post-apartheid society, I use concepts and insights from the literature on social movements,
discourse theory and, in particular, Gramsci's ideas on hegemony. The latter helps me to define
and assess the threat posed by the protests to the dominant order which I characterise as
neoliberalism or neoliberal capitalism. The conclusion that I come to is that the protests are
best understood in the context of the transition from apartheid to democracy: its dynamics and
its unmet expectations. They represent a fragmented and inchoate challenge to the post apartheid
neoliberal order. Their weakness, I argue, partly derives from the effects of the
demobilisation of the working class movement during the transition to democracy. It will take
broader societal developments, including the emergence of a particular kind of leadership and
organisation, for the protests to pose a serious challenge to the present order. The experience
of the struggle against apartheid suggests the necessity of a vision of alternatives to inspire,
shape and cohere struggles around everyday issues and concerns into struggles for radical
society-wide alternatives. Protest action was linked to imagination of a different way of doing
things and organising society. Without this link, it is likely that the protest movement will be
increasingly isolated and contained with some of its energy used negatively, for example, in
populist chauvinism, xenophobic attacks, mob justice, and other forms of anti-social behavior
that are becoming a worrisome feature of post-apartheid society. Nonetheless, it provides
hope and the foundation for a different future. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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The relationship between service delivery protests and crime in the Sekhukhune District of the Limpopo ProvinceAphiri, Mokgadi Johanna January 2016 (has links)
Thesis (M.A. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / The study aimed to determine the relationship between service delivery protests and crime in the Sekhukhune District Municipality. To achieve the study a qualitative approach was adopted. Focus group discussions were held with 10 discussants in each of the municipalities within the Sekhukhune District Municipality (10 in Elias Motsoaledi Municipality, 10 in Ephraim Mogale Municipality, 10 in Greater Tubatse Municipality, 10 in Fetakgomo Municipality, and 10 in Makhuduthamaga Municipality).Thematic analysis were used to analysed data collected from 50 participants. The results revealed that lack of service delivery, corruption, poor housing and unemployment cause service delivery protests. Service delivery protests turn violent due to community frustrations and police presence escalates the violence. Sekhukhune District Municipality members participate in violent service delivery protests due hopelessness and lack of knowledge of participatory mechanisms. Road barricading, tyre burning and vandalism are the nature of criminality associated with service delivery protests. Public protests are caused by a myriad of factors; however the findings indicate that there is a gulf that exists between the public and the municipal authorities. The public voice seems not to be heard by authorities, which leads to the public engaging in public protests. Public protests come only as a last resort, after all public participation avenues have been exhausted including the failure of the authorities to respond timeously to public demands. The study was able to determine the relationship between service delivery protests and crime. Sekhukhune District Municipality need to explore ways for both the invited spaces and invented spaces of participation to co-exist. This will provide for early detection (warning signs) for the levels of frustrations and subsequent protests.
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