Year of protest action in the capital city

It was a busy year in Pretoria with protests in 2024 by various organisations over job creation, service delivery and other issues.

- Marizka Coetzer

In January, a group of security guards gathered at the Tshwane House over the future of their employment after hearing about possible retrenchments.

The members of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies picketed outside the offices of International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola in February to force him to acknowledge anti-Semitism exists and has escalated, to rectify the untruths created in the media.

Later the same month, the unemployed medical professionals, dressed in scrubs, marched to the Union Buildings to table their demands, which included a budget to employ all unemployed health care workers and essential workers.