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Injured. 8. Perpetrators. 2 suspects arrested; names withheld. No. of participants. 2–4. On 9 July 2022, a mass shooting occurred at the Samukelisiwe tavern at Sweetwaters in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The shooting left four people dead and eight others injured.
Thabo Bester (born 13 June 1986) [4] is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. [5][6] He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023. [7]
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.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified Monday from standing in a national election next week because of a previous criminal conviction, a decision by the country's highest ...
Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...
35 killed. The South African Police shot at a crowd of funeral-goers stopped by them on Maduna Road in Uitenhage, on the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. The first shot was at a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle who joined the crowd from a side street and lifted his hand in a Black Power salute. Pebco Three murders.
Jacob Zuma, the former President of South Africa, was imprisoned on 7 July 2021 following a finding by the Constitutional Court of South Africa that he was guilty of contempt of court. The charges originated in Zuma's refusal to provide testimony to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo 's judicial commission of inquiry into alleged state capture.
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.