The 2021 South African unrest is a series of ongoing riots and protests in the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that began in Kwazulu-Natal on the evening of Friday, 9 July 2021.[1] The unrest then spread to Gauteng on the evening of 11 July 2021.[12][13] The riots began as a protest following the arrest and incarceration of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who was taken into custody after declining to testify at the Zondo Commission, an inquiry into allegations of corruption during his term as president from 2009 to 2018.