What A Week Of Turmoil In South Africa. And Here Are The Causes Of The Unrest

Lessons from the South African Unrest and Implications for Development By Dr Eddie Mahembe This week - precisely on 13 July 2021 - I had the opportunity to be on SABC News - being interviewed by Peter Ndoro - to share my thoughts on the socio-economic issues around the so-called ‘South Africa Unrest’. This was in the middle of the riots which had started on the evening of 9 July in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and spread to Gauteng on the evening of 11 July.