Govt still has case to answer for not protecting SAns during July 2021 unrest - Not in My Name

JOHANNESBURG - Social advocacy group Not in My Name said government still had a case to answer for failing to protect citizens during the July 2021 unrest.

It's been over three years after carnage swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in the aftermath of former President Jacob Zuma's incarceration.

On Monday, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Rights Commission are expected to release a joint report into the violence that claimed more than 350 lives.

Following the riots, hearings were conducted to establish the cause of the attacks and killings, as well as the alleged lapse in law enforcement for failing to detect and quash the unrest.

“There were three participants in the July 2021 unrests – one was violently protesting the imprisonment of Mr Jacob Zuma for contempt of court, another was a criminal whose mischievous activities found expression amid the social and political pandemonium, but even more guilty is the South African government,” said the organisation's president Siyabulela Jentile.