source: GroundUp
actor1: Rioters (South Africa)
actor2: Police Forces of South Africa (1994-)
location: Pietermaritzburg
notes: On 4 August 2020, about 50 demonstrators barricaded roads in Pietermaritzburg (uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal) with burning tires, demanding their electricity to be restored after a substation exploded ten days earlier. Police used teargas to disperse the crowd. [size=about 50]