{"id":2761,"date":"2012-10-11T05:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T05:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2012-10-11T05:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T05:41:33","slug":"violent-protests-rise-dramatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Violent protests rise dramatically"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rising expectations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Protest activity rose dramatically in the first eight months of this year, according to a report by the Multi-Level Government Initiative.<\/p>\n

About 80% of the protests were violent.<\/p>\n

The Multi-Level Government Initiative, which tracked protests between February 2007 and August 2012, released its protests barometer in Cape Town yesterday.<\/p>\n

The research corroborates the findings of local governments and data collated by intelligence service Municipal IQ.<\/p>\n

It shows that there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of protests and in the use of violence by protesters.<\/p>\n

Western Cape felt most of the protesters’ wrath.<\/p>\n

“Protest” is defined by the researchers as “any complaint or issue cited by protesters in reports, whether related to the delivery of municipal services or not, over which citizens decide to, and actually engage in, [sic] organised public protest activity”.<\/p>\n

Findings included that:<\/p>\n