Unrest: July 2021
Volunteers are fixing looted Soweto markets
“It was scary to see this area go from busy to what felt like a ghost town overnight”
News | 5 August 2021
July riots caused more than R100 million in damage to schools in KZN and Gauteng
Education department says this worsened its backlog on repairing over a thousand schools vandalised during lockdown
News | 4 August 2021
KZN family says police assaulted them and took goods that were not looted
Two family members and the pet dog shot with rubber bullets
News | 4 August 2021
Unrest July 2021: Grim details of deaths in Phoenix
Bheki Cele gives account of what sparked the violence according to police
News | 3 August 2021
How Africans and Indians are trying to bring peace to Phoenix
As KZN mops up after unrest, communities try to unite
Text by Greg Arde. Photos by Mlungisi Mbele.
Feature | 2 August 2021
Children go hungry after soup kitchen closed by July unrest
About 100 children were getting their Sunday meal at a kitchen run by people with disabilities
News | 2 August 2021
Operation Show Your Receipt: “They came in and took our mealie meal and oil”
Activists question legality of confiscating food from poor households
News | 29 July 2021
Gauteng informal traders feel the aftermath of July unrest
“We are not making money and our fridges at home are empty. We can’t carry on like this,” says Kwa Mai Mai Market food seller
News | 26 July 2021
This school for children with special needs was stripped bare by looters. Now the learners won’t even get meals
Golden Steps school in KwaZulu-Natal will not be able to re-open after the break
News | 21 July 2021