An unmasked man caught on camera allegedly setting a truck on fire is just one among a dozen identified in relation to the spate of trucks doused in flames on Sunday night in KwaZulu-Natal.
Sorry in advance. Feel free to exit stage left if you don’t want to go down this road, or just need a break from all of the negativity.
Paris protests. Load-shedding to return? Bus strike latest. Rand flying. Trump’s phoney health letter. CEO dies in spa room. Ecstasy cures PTSD. Guitar legend bankrupt. Leo DiCaprio’s beetle.
The South African prison system is just another state-run entity under pressure to deliver better conditions, and prisoners took to rioting yesterday to make their voices heard.
If you live in the City, you have heard an explosion at around 10PM last night. Well, it was from angry commuters who decided that they were letting loose.
As the revolution in Kiev gets uglier and uglier, a video has emerged of riot police making a detained protestor strip and stand naked in the snow while they photograph him.
The group of protesters who stormed through the Cape Town CBD last month have vowed to give it another go, despite being denied permission by the authorities.
Reports are breaking all over Twitter that an ANC march to the provincial legislature in Wale Street has turned violent, resulting the the looting of shops and the stoning of informal traders. Protesters are branching into the streets adjacent to St George’s Mall, and police are firing rubber bullets in a bid to control the […]
In the best real-world iteration of Project X yet, students at the University of Delaware turned the city of Newark into ground zero for a massive drunken riot on Monday night.
The Stockholm riots have reached their fifth day. On Sunday a 69-year-old man waving a machete was shot dead in his apartment by police claiming it was an act of self defense, this is reportedly the reason for the riots.
In this video above, Raytheon’s “principal investigator” Brian Urch explains how their Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT) software uses photographs uploaded to social networks and data logged by networks like Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter to determine the exact, real time location of an individual. These images sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded […]
You’ve probably seen #Zamdela trending on your timeline today. The riots in the Sasolburg township of Zamdela have rocked South Africa, with the most compelling reportage coming from the ground via Twitter. Check out this collection of tweets, for a timeline of the riot. #Sasolburg There've been no protests in #Zamdela this morning. Unconfirmed […]
The mother of a prospective student has been killed in a stampede for late registrations at the University of Johannesburg, which has been confirmed by a spokesperson for the university.
This incredible video was shot recently during the Independence Day riots in Warsaw. Someone used a camera, attached to a remote-controlled helicopter, to get a birds-eye view of the action. The quality of the footage is so good that it is almost cinematic. It makes one wonder what our news bulletins could look like in a couple of years with the rapid advancement of technology.
Josh Cole is a photographer from London with a strong background in the hip hop, parkour, and street culture. He returned to some of his old haunts following the riots over the last couple of days. Here are some rather disturbing pics of rioters he met, and the kind of weapons they aren’t afraid to use on whoever stands in their way.
Angry youths are taking over the streets of London. But rioting is a profession rather best left to the professionals. The guy featured in this video hopefully learned a valuable lesson: if you can’t even throw an umbrella properly at the bobbies then you should rather go back to being on the dole. Because that move was well embarrassing, innit?
Twitter is abuzz with realtime reports of clashes between police and residents of Hangberg, in Hout Bay. News24’s Dan Calders is on the ground, posting an up to the minute photo essay on Twitter. Eye witnesses have reported plumes of smoke rising from the area, and police firing rubber bullets at residents, who are firing […]