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===2021 civil unrest===
{{Main|2021 South African unrest}}
[[2021 South African unrest|Civil unrest]] occurred in [[South Africa]]'s [[KwaZulu-Natal]] and [[Gauteng]] provinces in July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President [[Jacob Zuma]] for [[contempt of court]], after he declined to testify at the [[Zondo Commission]], an inquiry into allegations of corruption during his term as president from 2009 to 2018.<ref name=aj20210712>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/12/violence-spreads-in-s-africa-after-jacob-zumas-jailing|title=S Africa violence spreads after Jacob Zuma jailed|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=12 July 2021|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712110018/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/12/violence-spreads-in-s-africa-after-jacob-zumas-jailing|url-status=live}}</ref> Protests against the incarceration triggered wider rioting and looting, further exacerbated by [[Termination of employment|job layoffs]] and economic woes worsened by the [[COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa|COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=cnbc20210713>{{Cite web|date=2021-07-13|title=Deaths climb to 72 in South Africa riots after Zuma jailed|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/deaths-climb-to-72-in-south-africa-riots-after-zuma-jailed.html|access-date=2021-07-15|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref><ref name=aj20210714>{{Cite web|last=Bauer|first=Nickolaus|title='Little to lose': Poverty and despair fuel South Africa's unrest|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/14/little-to-lose-poverty-and-despair-fuel-south-africas-unrest|access-date=2021-07-16|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref>
[[The Economist]] called it the worst violence that South Africa had experienced since the end of Apartheid.<ref name=economist20210714>{{cite news |title=Where does South Africa go from here?|url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/24/where-does-south-africa-go-from-here |access-date=2021-07-30 |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723224537/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/24/where-does-south-africa-go-from-here |archive-date=23 July 2021 }}</ref>

Police and military authorities were mobilised to quell the unrest.<ref name=wapo20210712>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/12/south-africa-zuma-protests/|title=South Africa deploys military as protests turn violent in wake of Jacob Zuma's jailing|first=Lesley|last=Wroughton|newspaper=Washington Post|date=12 July 2021|access-date=13 July 2021|archive-date=14 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714012249/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/12/south-africa-zuma-protests/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/live-updates-looting-violence-continues-in-gauteng-kzn-1f4e0b9c-8c88-494e-8160-aeacff164ec1|title=Live Updates: Looting and violence in Gauteng and KZN|website=www.iol.co.za|access-date=12 July 2021|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712153317/https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/live-updates-looting-violence-continues-in-gauteng-kzn-1f4e0b9c-8c88-494e-8160-aeacff164ec1|url-status=live}}</ref> By mid-July, the South African National Defense Forces had deployed approximately 25,000 military personnel.<ref name="SANDF_DeploymentIncrease">{{cite web |last1=Mkhwanazi|first1=Siyabonga |title=Mapisa-Nqakula: We have deployed 25 000 soldiers |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mapisa-nqakula-we-have-deployed-25-000-soldiers-06107ed0-0db0-4ad5-bba6-80abed44f655 |website=iol |access-date=15 July 2021 |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714172503/https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mapisa-nqakula-we-have-deployed-25-000-soldiers-06107ed0-0db0-4ad5-bba6-80abed44f655 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 18 July, over 3,400 people had been arrested, while as of 22 July, 337 people had died in connection with the unrest.<ref name="July22">{{Cite web|date=2021-07-22|title=Unrest death toll rises to 337|url=https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/unrest-death-toll-rises-337|access-date=2021-07-22|website=SAnews|language=en}}</ref>

The July 2021 unrest coincided with the [[2021 Cape Town taxi conflict|Cape Town taxi conflict]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Flare-up in taxi war sparks looting alarm in Cape Town city centre|url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-07-14-flare-up-in-taxi-war-sparks-looting-alarm-in-cape-town-city-centre/|access-date=2021-08-30|website=TimesLIVE|language=en-ZA}}</ref> and [[Transnet ransomware attack]]<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|date=2021-07-29|title=Cyber attacks expose the vulnerability of South Africa's ports|url=https://issafrica.org/iss-today/cyber-attacks-expose-the-vulnerability-of-south-africas-ports|access-date=2021-08-02|website=ISS Africa|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=28 July 2021|title=Call to 'connect dots between insurrection modus operandi and crippling Transnet cyber attack'|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/call-to-connect-dots-between-insurrection-modus-operandi-and-crippling-transnet-cyber-attack-8d48c4e9-a3a7-4140-81de-5597a20a430b|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.iol.co.za|language=en}}</ref> leading to unproven speculation that they might have been connected.