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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.
During the last 3 months of 2023, around 85 people were murdered in South Africa every day. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] [ 113 ] The murder rate increased rapidly in the late-1980s and early-1990s. [ 114 ] In 2001, a South African was more likely to be murdered than die in a car crash, [ 115 ] but the murder rate halved between 1994 and 2009 from 67 to 34 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
21 October- The 2021 South African metalworkers strike ends, with workers represented by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa winning a 5-6% annual pay increase 22 October - Following a high-profile trial ex-police officer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu is convicted of murdering five relatives and her boyfriend over several years.
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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.