Protests erupted in South Africa last week after former President Jacob Zuma handed himself in to police to serve a 15-month jail term for contempt of court. The government is now preparing to deploy more troops to tackle widespread riots and looting concentrated in the densely-populated Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, with 117 people now dead and more than 1,200 arrested, according to a police statement.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 15, 2021 13:07 UTC