Linking service delivery and protest in South Africa: an exploration of evidence from Khayelitsha
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2011
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Unisa Press
Abstract
The notion of service delivery protests in South Africa has perhaps become a cliché
in South Africa. While there was a lull in protest activity (excluding industrial
action) in the first decade of democracy, the second decade has been characterised
by increased militancy reminiscent of the anti-apartheid struggle days, with many of
these diagnosed as so-called service delivery protests. To be sure, service delivery
issues are often mentioned as part of a blend of issues that have caused the different
communities to protest in media reports. The role of service delivery in the generation
of these protests however has so far not been investigated directly. This article reports
the results of a quantitative study using path analysis to investigate the strength of
the claim of the link between service delivery and protests in Khayelitsha, one of the
protest prone townships in Cape Town. The article concludes that that service delivery
affects protests directly and indirectly through its impact on perceptions of service
delivery, perception of condition of life and the attendance of meetings.
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Protest, Service delivery, Public participation
Citation
Nleya, N. (2011). Linking service delivery and protests in South Africa: an exploration of evidence from Khayelitsha. Africanus, 41(1): 3-33