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Death(s) 354 : 35 Arrested ... 35 Arrested: 5,500: The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July ... The Daily Maverick stated that the evidence directly ...
Daily Maverick. Daily Maverick is a South African online news publication and weekly print newspaper, with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. [1] [2] [3] It claims to have a readership of approximately 10 million readers per month. [4] It was founded in 2009 by Branislav Brkic, who is also the Editor-in-Chief of the publication, and Styli ...
The Daily Maverick published an editorial questioning why public officials received generous protection details whilst witnesses who blow the whistle on serious acts of corruption, like Deokaran, received no protection thereby raising questions about the South African government's commitment to fighting corruption in South Africa. [19]
The murder of Charl Kinnear occurred at around 15:03 SAST on 18 September 2020 [1] as he was leaving his home in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, South Africa. [2] He was shot multiple times in the upper body whilst seated in the driver's seat of his white Toyota Corolla resulting in his death. [2] Kinnear was a lieutenant colonel in the South African Police Service (SAPS) and was the section ...
Murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana. Uyinene " Nene " Mrwetyana [1] (20 April 2000 – 24 August 2019) [2] [3] was a South African student at the University of Cape Town. On August 24, 2019, she was raped and murdered in the suburb of Claremont, Cape Town. Her murder highlighted the broader national problem of gender based violence and femicide in ...
The Life Esidimeni tragedy involved the deaths of 144 people [1] [2] at psychiatric facilities in the Gauteng province of South Africa from causes including starvation and neglect. The tragedy takes its name from Life Esidimeni, a subsidiary of Life Healthcare, the private healthcare provider from which some 1 500 state patients were removed in ...
Chris Hani, General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), was assassinated by right-wing extremist Janusz Waluś on 10 April 1993. [1] The assassination, later tied to members within the Conservative Party, occurred outside Hani's home in Dawn Park during a peak period of progressive anti-apartheid momentum in South Africa.
There have been many political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa. [1] [2] In 2013 it was reported that there had been more than 450 political assassinations in the province of KwaZulu-Natal since the end of apartheid in 1994. [3] In July 2013 the Daily Maverick reported that there had been "59 political murders in the last five ...