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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 ...
The 2023 Cape Town taxi strike, also known as the 2023 Western Cape taxi strike, was a law enforcement dispute between minibus taxi operators in the Western Cape province of South Africa, as represented by South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), and the City of Cape Town. [5]
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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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 ...
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.
South Africa closed its side of the Lebombo border that it shares with Mozambique in the wake of the recent protests. South Africa uses the Maputo harbour in Mozambique for some of its exports and the closure of the border resulted in trucks transporting minerals to the harbour being stranded.