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The 2023 South African National Shutdown was a protest held by the political party Economic Freedom Fighters on 20 March 2023, the day before Human Rights Day. [ 8 ] [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The EFF called for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an end to load-shedding .
South Africa is bracing for nationwide protests called by an opposition party in a bid to unseat president Cyril Ramaphosa. Julius Malema, leader of the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF ...
South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2]It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two people were fatally shot on a fifth day of violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town on Monday sparked by a dispute last week between minibus ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
“Things can be recovered ... but there is an impact in the community,” said Richard Ncube, 40, a former police officer.
The riots coincided with a nation-wide truck driver strike protesting against the employment of non-South African truckers. [28] It also coincided with the publication of a statement by Human Rights Watch that over 200 people (mostly foreign truck drivers) [29] had been killed in South Africa since March 2018.
The rioting in South Africa has left over 70 people dead, the worst violence the nation has seen since before the end of apartheid. Why the arrest of former South African President Zuma sparked ...