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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.
South Africa's leader moves to avert coalition row. Nomsa Maseko - BBC News, Johannesburg. September 13, 2024 at 7:15 AM. President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) and John Steenhuisen (R) agreed to form a ...
Politics ofSouth Africa. The Republic of South Africa is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The President of South Africa serves both as head of state and as head of government. The President is elected by the National Assembly (the lower house of the South African Parliament) and must retain the confidence of the Assembly in order to ...
South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present. [1][2] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator ...
South Africa's president signed contentious education legislation into law on Friday, angering his party's main coalition partner amid a debate centred on the integration of schools that teach in ...
At least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine in South Africa that happened more than a month ago but is only now coming to light after people ...
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. [3] [5] The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, warned businesses ...
The statement follows an IMF visit to South Africa in early July to conduct a "post-financing assessment" after its $4.3 billion loan to the country in 2020 to help it fight the impact of the ...