With less than 100 days before the World Cup kickoff, South African township residents barricaded roads in Soweto, the latest in a series of protests over living conditions that have hit the country. Police said about 1,000 people demanding housing demonstrated in the township near Johannesburg, blocking roads with large rocks close to the venue for the opening and final game of the tournament.

Last week, a policeman was shot last week and scores of people arrested when protests turned violent in several Johannesburg townships. This week, protests reached the capital Pretoria, where demonstrators demanding better housing, schools, roads and sewage systems threatened to disrupt the World Cup, which starts in June.