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25,000 troops deployed to quell South Africa riots, 117 dead | Charlotte Observer: South Africa’s army has begun deploying 25,000 troops to assist police in quelling weeklong riots and violence sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Cele expected to return to Phoenix: DURBAN – Police Minister Bheki Cele is returning to Phoenix in Durban on Saturday. This as he tries to help quell racial tensions between the Indian and Black communities in the area. Twenty people …
25,000 troops deployed to quell South Africa riots, 117 dead: South Africa’s army has begun deploying 25,000 troops to assist police in quelling weeklong riots and violence sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Government to provide food relief to households in need after unrest: President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is in the process of providing food relief to households affected by the violence and looting.
Fellow South Africans, we were poorly prepared: Ramaphosa tells the nation after violent pro-Zuma looting: President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the country was ill-prepared for the violent protests and looting that broke out in parts of the country after the incarceration of former president Jacob …
Mabuyane calls on EC to help hungry in KZN: Premier Oscar Mabuyane has called upon the people of the Eastern Cape not to ostracise those from KwaZulu-Natal as SA was one country and should not be involved in ethnicity and tribalism. Mabuyana …
South Africans in Australia stunned at deadly outbreak of violence over Jacob Zuma conviction: South Africans in Australia say they are heartbroken by violence and looting in the wake of a corruption investigation involving ex-president Jacob Zuma.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Cato Manor in Durban once attracted attention from around the world because it was where rioting broke out in 1959 in protest against the city’s beerhalls and the looming prospect of mass forced removals in which the residents would be uprooted from their homes in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act, and resettled in townships. The area was granted to George Christopher Cato in 1865, perhaps as a reward for his years of community service and for the fact that, in 1854, he had become Durban’s first Mayor. The land was sub-divided in the early 1900s and leased to Indian market gardeners, many of whom were either former indentured labourers, who had come to South Africa to work on the sugar plantations, or their descendents.
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