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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. [3][5] The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, warned businesses countrywide ...
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 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.
e. 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]
September 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM. By Nellie Peyton. PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the durability of his unity government on Friday, after a row over a ...
Apartheid. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans ...
Internal resistance to apartheid. Internal resistance to apartheid. Part of the decolonisation of Africa. Nelson Mandela burns his passbook in 1960 as part of a civil disobedience campaign. Date. 4 June 1948 – 10 May 1994. (45 years, 11 months and 6 days) [note 1] Location. South Africa.
The 2019 service delivery protests refers to a series of protests and civil disturbances taking place across urban areas of South Africa related to poor service delivery that started in Alexandra on 3 April 2019. [4][5] After starting in Alexandra on 3 April the protestors marched to the wealthy nearby neighbourhood of Sandton five days later ...