If a protest does not pose a serious threat to public safet… - Jane Duncan

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If a protest does not pose a serious threat to public safety, it should not be prevented, even if the municipality had not been informed about it. The Constitution protects people’s right to assemble.

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Jane Duncan is an academic, public intellectual and activist at the Journalism Department at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She works on media freedom issues and is the former director of the Freedom of Expression Institute in Johannesburg.

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Municipal decision-making sets a framework for police actions — in that prohibited protests are more likely to trigger police actions than ones that aren’t — but the police can exercise discretion in how they respond to such collective action.

Failure to notify is not, in itself, sufficient reason to break up a protest if it is peaceful and unarmed.

State repression creates solidarity among movement participants, who justify the need for violence as a form of self-defence.

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