• EIGHT DAYS IN JULY, inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alight

EIGHT DAYS IN JULY, inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alight

: Hunter (Q.), Singh (K.) & Wicks (J.)

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222pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2021

 

Foreword by Adriaan Basson.

Journalists Qaanitah Hunter, Jeff Wicks and Kaveel Singh on the violence and looting that occurred in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July 2021 after former President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to prison. Over 340 people lost their lives and the damage exceeded R50 billion.

Qaanitah Hunter won Vodacom Journalist of the Year in 2016 and 2017 and the Nat Nakasa Journalism Award in 2019. She is the author of Balance of Power: Ramaphosa and the future of South Africa, and has written for the Sunday Times, Daily Maverick and Mail and Guardian.

News24 reporter Jeff Wicks won the 2021 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism. He has worked for the Sunday Times, The Witness and the Sunday Tribune.

Kaveel Singh is News24's KwaZulu-Natal correspondent.