Last updated: 15 october, 2009 - 16:05 GMT

South Africa Protests

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Violence relating to poor service delivery seems to be escalating in parts of South Africa.

Today the police ordered residents at a township in the Mpumalanga Province to stay in their homes as they tried to quell the riots.

There was trouble too in the town of Nelspruit, where protestors set up barricades on roads leading to a new football stadium being built for next year's World Cup.

The BBC's Mpho Lakaje reports from Johannesburg

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