Violence spreads in South Africa amid Zuma jailing: Live updates

Worst unrest in decades triggered by the jailing of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma.

Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in decades. Protests that followed Zuma’s arrest last week have widened into looting and an outpouring of generalised anger over inequality that persists 27 years after the fall of apartheid. Poverty has been exacerbated by severe social and economic restrictions aimed at blocking the spread of COVID-19.