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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.
A retired Constitutional Court judge will lead an official inquiry into last week's fire at a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg that left at least 76 people dead in one of South Africa's ...
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]
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A week after the uprising began, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met South African State President Vorster in West Germany to discuss the situation in Rhodesia, but the Soweto uprising did not feature in the discussions. [32]
10 March – Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is appointed Chief Justice of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2022. 16 March – President Cyril Ramaphosa recognised Prince Misuzulu Zulu as the King of AmaZulu nation in South Africa after a long court battle. [5] 19 March – Dr Esther Mahlangu was attacked at her homestead. The attacker ...
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, better known as the Zondo Commission or State Capture Commission, was a public inquiry established in January 2018 by former President Jacob Zuma to investigate allegations of state capture, corruption, and fraud in the public sector in South Africa.
South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national power outages beginning at the end of 2007. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator, Eskom , and various parliamentarians have attributed these rolling blackouts to insufficient generation capacity.