Death toll climbs as South Africa violence spirals – worst violence in decades

Death toll climbs as South Africa violence spirals

Aljazeera says crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls across South Africa on Tuesday with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in decades.

Protests that followed Zuma’s arrest last week have widened into an outpouring of anger over the inequality that remains 27 years after the end of apartheid.

Poverty has been exacerbated by severe social and economic restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/13/worst-violence-in-years-spreads-in-south-africa-amid-zuma-jailing

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