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Widespread civil unrest erupted in South Africa, in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, between 9 and 18 July 2021. A number of commentators have observed that the insurrection was the boiling over of tensions that had been bubbling up inside the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal for years. When President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on 16 July 2021 to provide an update on the situation, his choice of words was significant: calling it an "attempted insurrection" that had "failed", Ramaphosa suggested that the unrest was an "attack on democracy" and the "constitutional order".[44] In his speech he thus framed the events as having been instigated by political elites who "sought to manipulate the poor and vulnerable" in order to spark a popular insurrection. Harry Gwala was pushed into retirement; spying allegations chased Sifiso Nkabinde out of the ANC and towards a violent death; judicial investigations eventually jailed ANC prison boss and Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) trade unionist Russel Ngubo, who had once run a hit squad from a Pietermaritzburg prison. [Extracted from the article]