{"id":1860,"date":"2021-07-31T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2021-07-31T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:04:01","slug":"the-2021-riots-and-looting-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2021\/07\/31\/the-2021-riots-and-looting-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 riots and looting in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

An uneasy calm now exists in South Africa since earlier this month after having seen the worst violence since apartheid. The violence and looting followed upon the jailing of the President Jacob Zuma, who was sentenced to 15 months in jail for contempt of court on 29 June this year. That was after he refused to appear before a commission investigating corruption during his nine years in office. He handed himself over to police on 7 July. His arrest led to protests, violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng and consequently spread to Gauteng province. Zuma was a controversial figure to say the least. But that is not what concerns us here. What led to the protests and why, and what is it about South Africa that would lead to such large riots? We\u2019ll have a look at those matters here and South Africa\u2019s astrology.<\/span><\/p>\n

We begin our investigations here with a look at the chart of the nation as the background. The chart for South Africa is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The general aspects on first glance look rather promising \u2013 a Sun\/Jupiter trine showing the wealth the nation has enjoyed in the past; a Sun\/Ceres sextile, which shows South Africa\u2019s reputation as one of the better-off nations in Africa with a relatively high standard of living, despite its aridity and low-value farmland; and the Sun\/Moon square which gives the nation drive, quickness of perception and the ability to adapt quickly to circumstances. The latter square is one of the \u2018success squares\u2019. Others are the Sun\/Saturn and Moon\/Saturn squares, and there are others as well, but these do not feature in South Africa\u2019s chart. The \u2018high standard of living\u2019 mentioned is deceptive, though, and an overall figure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parsing the deceptive nature of the mentioned high standard of living begins with the Sun\/Moon square. This particular aspect usually indicates trouble in the immediate environment at the time of birth, the obvious one for South Africa being the relations between the white settlers and the black population, as well as the wide wealth gap, which brings us to the midpoints.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two troublesome midpoints to the Sun:<\/span><\/p>\n