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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.
The Reaction Unit was a counter-terrorist force within the South African Police (SAP) from 1979 to 2001, in support of the SAP Special Task Force. Elements of the Reaction Unit were attached to Regional Riot Units in locations throughout South Africa, the first of which was in Durban. Its recruits were specially selected and trained in order to ...
Academic boycott campaign. The Anti-Apartheid Movement was instrumental in initiating an academic boycott of South Africa in 1965. The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom.
Qwelane v South African Human Rights Commission and Another is a 2021 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on the constitutionality of a statutory prohibition on hate speech. The court found that section 10 (1) of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000 was unconstitutional insofar as it ...
2021–2023 Eswatini protests. Date. 20 June 2021 – c. summer 2023. Location. Eswatini; solidarity protests in South Africa. Caused by. Authoritarian rule and suppression of opposition. Misuse of the country's funds by the monarchy [1] Government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
FT: South Africa 35-7 New Zealand. 21:38, Harry Latham-Coyle. Statement made. A Springboks demolition job, aided by some All Blacks ill discipline but more than worth their 28-point winning margin ...
The proportion of South Africa's total population that is foreign born increased from 2.8% in 2005 to 7% in 2019, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration, [6] [7] South Africa is the largest recipient of immigrants on the African continent.
The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [ 1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [ 2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.