This article reports on the frequency and turmoil of South Africa’s community protests from 2005 to 2017, which, taken together, have been called a ‘rebellion’. It defines ‘community protest’ as protests in which collective demands are raised by a geographically defined and identified ‘community’ that frames its demands in support/and or defence of that community. It distinguishes between ‘violence’ and ‘disorder’, which has produced a novel three-way categorisation of turmoil, namely ‘orderly’, ‘disruptive’ and ‘violent’ protests. Drawing on the Centre for Social Change’s archive of media reports, the largest database of its kind, and by comparing its data with details gleaned from the police’s Incident Registration Information System (an unrivalled source of protest statistics), the article reveals a rising trend in frequency of community protests and a tendency towards those protests being disorderly, that is, disruptive and/or violent. In the process of advancing this position, the authors offer a critique of other attempts to measure the number and turmoil of community protests.

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频率与动荡：2005-2017年南非社区抗议

本文报道了2005年至2017年南非社区抗议活动的频次和动荡，这些抗议活动合起来被称为“叛乱”。它把“社区抗议”定义为这样的抗议：在这种抗议中，由地理上定义和确定的“社区”提出了集体要求，这些要求构成了其支持/或捍卫该社区的要求。它区分了“暴力”和“混乱”，从而产生了一种新颖的动乱三类分类，即“有序”，“破坏性”和“暴力”抗议。利用社会变革中心的媒体报道档案库，这是同类数据库中最大的数据库，并通过将其数据与从警察事件登记信息系统（抗议统计数据无与伦比）中收集的详细信息进行比较，该文章揭示了社区抗议活动的频率呈上升趋势，并且这些抗议活动趋于无序（即破坏性和/或暴力）。在提高这一立场的过程中，作者对衡量社区抗议活动的数量和动荡的其他尝试提出了批评。