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South Africa Protests To End At Midnight, Julius Malema Says
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South Africa Protests To End At Midnight, Julius Malema Says

South Africa opposition leader Julius Malema has announced that the ongoing protests in the country will end at midnight. While thanking South Africans for coming out in large numbers to join the ‘National Shutdown’ protests, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader said the protests have been a success contrary to claims that people did not turn out as anticipated. “Thank you very much the people of South Africa and EFF ground forces for a peaceful yet vibrant EFF National Shutdown. It's just the beginning; now, let's go out and join the picket lines. They said it was a normal day, but you could see who the deceivers were. You proved to the doomsayers once more that we remain the only discipline force or the left. National Shutdown will end at midnight,” he wrote in twe...
Gabrielle Union Shows Love to South African Blood & Water Actress Khosi Ngema
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Gabrielle Union Shows Love to South African Blood & Water Actress Khosi Ngema

Gabrielle Union took to social media recently to show some major love to young South African actress, Khosi Ngema. The US thespian praised Khosi for slaying her role in Netflix's Blood & Water. The 21-year-old portrays the character of Filike Bhele in the drama series. Gabrielle chose Khosi as her #WCW on Wednesday, 29 September. The superstar shared that Khosi is on top of the game regardless of her age. Taking to Twitter, the Deliver Us From Eva star urged her followers to stream Season 1 and 2 of Blood & Water so they could see Khosi Ngema in action. She captioned her post: "Today’s #WCW is the immensely talented @Khosi_Ngema_. She plays Fikile Bhele on Netflix’s series Blood & Water (if you haven’t watched season 1, RUN DON’T WALK! Season 2 just started, and we are...
South Africa looting: Government to deploy 25,000 troops after unrest
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South Africa looting: Government to deploy 25,000 troops after unrest

The South African government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of widespread looting and violence. The military deployment - to counter riots sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma - is the biggest since the end of apartheid. At least 72 people have died and more than 1,700 have been arrested in South Africa's worst unrest in years. Hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted and the government says it is acting to prevent food shortages. Citizens are arming themselves and forming vigilante groups to protect their property from the rampage. More than 200 incidents of looting and vandalism were recorded on Wednesday, the government said, as the number of troops deployed doubled to 5,000. But Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she...
South Africa Zuma riots Death toll mounts amid looting
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South Africa Zuma riots Death toll mounts amid looting

 At least 45 people have now died in the violence that has been engulfing parts of South Africa since the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma last week. This includes 10 people killed in a stampede during looting on Monday night at a shopping centre in Soweto. The BBC filmed a baby being thrown from a building in Durban that was on fire after ground-floor shops were looted. The military has now been deployed to help the police overstretched since the unrest began last Thursday. President Cyril Ramaphosa has called it some of the worst violence witnessed in South Africa since the 1990s, before the end of apartheid, with fires set, highways blocked and businesses and warehouses looted in major cities and small towns in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Africa L...
South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma starts serving jail term.
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South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma starts serving jail term.

Prison authorities confirmed that Zuma "has been admitted to start serving a 15 months sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre" in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is the first time a former president has been jailed in post-apartheid South Africa. His turning himself in after days of refusing to do so brought an end to an impasse that had gripped the country, which is also battling a brutal third wave of Covid-19. The sentence handed to Zuma by the Constitutional Court last week for snubbing anti-graft investigators also set a benchmark for the continent, by jailing a former head of state for refusing to respond to a corruption probe. Police had earlier on Wednesday warned they were prepared to arrest Zuma by a midnight deadline to enforce the ruling, unless the to...