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South Africa: The Architects of South Africa's July Mayhem Cannot Be Let Off the Hook
Daily Maverick, 2 August 2021
The capitals of the world will be looking at how the powers that be deal decisively with a very real threat to the democratic state. Even though we are a mere dot on the global… Read more »
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South Africa: Most Looted Shops Still Shut After Wave of Violence
DW, 2 August 2021
Two weeks after several South African provinces were hit by a wave of deadly violence, the process of rebuilding their destroyed infrastructure and reopening the scores of looted… Read more »
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South Africa: Over 200 Businesses Sign-up To Ground-Breaking Lawsuit Against Cabinet and ANC
ActionSA, 3 August 2021
Today, we can announce that over 200 businesses have raised their hands to join our ground-breaking lawsuit against President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele,… Read more »
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South Africa: How Africans and Indians Are Trying to Bring Peace to Phoenix
GroundUp, 2 August 2021
Journalists Greg Arde and Mlungisi Mbele live in Durban. They witnessed, reported and photographed the unrest from 8 to 14 July. Last week they visited Phoenix and met Blessing… Read more »
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South Africa: Crises an Opportunity for SA to Review Its Systems, Says PSC
SAnews.gov.za, 2 August 2021
The Public Service Commission (PSC) says the COVID-19 pandemic and recent violence witnessed in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng should be seized as an opportunity to review and… Read more »
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South Africa: After the Looting - a Snap Survey Reveals What South Africans Think - and Fear
Daily Maverick, 1 August 2021
About 37% of South Africans polled are fearful of the future, while 21% despair and only 36% of South Africans are hopeful. Read more »
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South Africa: 'I Don't Want Food Parcels, I Want Justice'
New Frame, 28 July 2021
The family members of loved ones killed by vigilantes in Phoenix, north of Durban, during the week of unrest are demanding justice as they bury their relatives. Read more »
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South Africa: SA's Recent Civil Unrest Won't Deter Intrepid U.S. Investors, Says Special Assistant to US President Biden
Daily Maverick, 29 July 2021
The US was concerned about the rioting and looting in South Africa this month, but is encouraged by the way its citizens pulled together in the wake of the unrest to rebuild the… Read more »
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South Africa: Govt to Assist Workers Affected By Looting in Gauteng, KZN
SAnews.gov.za, 29 July 2021
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi says the Department of Employment and Labour is committed to assist workers who have been affected by the recent events in parts of… Read more »
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South Africa: President Ramaphosa Throws Money, Rather Than a Cabinet Reshuffle, At His Security Problem
Daily Maverick, 28 July 2021
Heads should have rolled. But they are unlikely to, as Ramaphosa's political fortunes are too tenuously balanced because he needs his Cabinet hawks onside. Read more »
South Africa Picks up the Pieces After Looting, Unrest
Opposition party ActionSA has called on people and businesses affected by looting and violence to share their experiences as part of a groundbreaking class-action lawsuit against the rulting African National Congress (ANC).
Party leader Herman Mashaba said: "President Ramaphosa, Minister Cele, and the rest of the Executive were, and remain, under a positive legal duty to uphold and maintain law and order by taking proactive steps to protect and preserve the rule of law ... In addition to this action, we have also demanded that the President establish an independent Judicial Commission of Inquir .... We believe such an inquiry would have the necessary power to hold even members of Cabinet to account whilst preventing the ANC from using its majority in Parliament to whitewash any meaningful investigation and cover up the tracks of the many instigators who are quite likely their senior members and benefactors."
Violence erupted when former president Jacob Zuma began serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court over failing to appear before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture. Looters vandalised shopping malls, other retail outlets, businesses, factories and infrastructure with over 1,000 people arrested as a result.
InFocus
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Amnesty International has called on the South African government to investigate the the deaths of hundreds of people killed during a week-long series of riots and looting in the ... Read more »
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Amid the explosive cocktail of ingredients which contributed to the outbreak of looting and burning in South Africa this week, new fault-lines running through a society divided by ... Read more »
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Widespread looting and unrest in KwaZuku-Natal (KZN) has hit crucial health services hard, writes Nokulunga Majola for GroundUp. Clinics were closed in eThekwini and many ... Read more »
Volunteers signed up to help businesses affected by the looting which swept Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (file photo).
