Many Have Become More Disillusioned With The ANC Government, Suspicious Of Their Neighbours, And Ethnic Along With Racial Tensions Are At An All Time High.

Ethnic and racial conflict in South Africa is nothing new.

The Boer Wars, Apartheid, and White Genocide all come to mind.

But tensions and unrest in South Africa are due to rise even further as it comes to the one year anniversary since the Durban Riots which saw 300 people killed, businesses looted and destroyed, and a rise of Afrikaner Nationalism in Pretoria and in the Transvaal.

In 2021, former South African President, Jacob Zuma, was arrested for corruption charges by his replacement Cyril Ramaphosa.

Zuma's supporters in KwaZulu-Natal rioted in protest of his arrest, causing billions of ZAR in property damage.

The community in Durban still distrusts each other, one member of the community said: "People suspect their co-workers, are distrustful towards their neighbours, and relationships have devolved due to the paranoia that one of them could be a Zuma supporter".

Afrikaners and Rhodesians living in the wealthy neighbourhoods overlooking Durban installed fire barricades and set up armed checkpoints, fearing a new wave of white murders was upon them.

The Zondo Commission has charged over 10,000 people with arson, murder, sexual assault, rape, and looting as of May 2022.

Afrikaner Nationalism and Rhodesian Separatism has grown in South Africa and neighbouring Zimbabwe since the Durban Riots, with 4/10 White Africans openly identifying as a member of the Volkstaat Movement or one of many Rhodesian Separatist groups in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

All of which combined with the splintering ANC have led many to fear a civil war in South Africa, with Ramaphosa defusing the situation saying: "We are the Rainbow Nation: Populated by blacks, whites, Asians, Europeans, Natives, Rhodesians, Afrikaners, and Americans.

If we break now, we will be spitting in the face of everything Nelson Mandela wanted to achieve in 1994".