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According to South African police statistics, there were 21,325 murder victims in 2019 of which 49 were white farmers. [48] During the South Africa's hard lockdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic, crime, including rural crime, decreased.
Later in October of 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa called the murder "an appalling act of cruelty" but denounced the claim it was an anti-white hate crime, as well as the claim white farmers are being targeted by black people with mention of South Africa's problems with violent crimes and stating, "the majority of victims … are black and poor."
During the shooting, Madubela at times pushed black people out of the way to shoot whites, and everyone killed or injured in the shooting was white. Prior to the shooting, his pay had been suspended following a period of absence without leave. The shooting came after years of tensions in the South African National Defence Force over integration ...
A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialist police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa, September 1, 2023 ...
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"The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots,[23] the Zuma unrest[24] or Zuma riots,[25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.[21]: 52 Resulting protests against ...
The 1996 Shoprite bombing was a white supremacist terrorist attack that took place on 24 December 1996 after a bomb was detonated at a Shoprite supermarket in Worcester, South Africa killing 4 people and wounding several others. [1] A second bomb placed in a tree down the street at a local pharmacy was also detonated, injuring 2 sitting nearby ...
On 4 October 1965, during the Apartheid in South Africa, a passenger train of the South African Railways with up to 1500 black commuters onboard derailed, killing 87 of them. As ‘revenge’ the passengers lynched a signalman and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a protest march towards the disaster ...