Astrology of the South Africa riots

 

The 2021 South African unrest is a series of ongoing riots and protests in the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that began in Kwazulu-Natal on the evening of Friday, 9 July 2021. The unrest then spread to Gauteng on the evening of 11 July 2021.The riots began as a protest following the arrest and detainment of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who was arrested after declining to testify at the Zondo Commission, a state-backed inquiry probing allegations of corruption during his term as president from 2009 to 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_African_unrest

The mundane horoscope of South  Africa [1] is presented here. Of particular interest is the current transit of Pluto over the Uranus-Neptune  conjunction that is square the MC. In a national chart, the MC rules the leaders of the nation. A hard aspect from Neptune  especially in Capricorn can point to scams and the unreliability and corruption of leaders. Among other things Neptune is also linked to weakness so that Ebertin has:

[Uranus-Neptune] – Pluto :  at the mercy of external conditions and circumstances, without trying to make  a firm stand;  abandonment of resistance; great losses, calamities and catastrophes.

This appears to describe the helplessness of the current government accurately.

The astrological reason for the ongoing riots is the  New Moon [18cn]  of July 10  which triggered the radix [MC-Uranus-Neptune] –  transit Pluto combination by forming a T-square.

About the stars that conjoin the New Moon, Diana Rosenberg writes:

Greed is a common failing not only for money, but power as well; they can be ruthless in their drive to the top.

Not surprisingly, Zuma (b. 12 Apr 1942) has his radix Sun [22ar] - TNP Hades [21ar] on the MC of the national chart. His Solar arc Pluto [20li] is opposite this combination which has also been  receiving a transit square from Pluto for about a year.  Sun-Hades-Pluto combination points towards humiliation through corruption and its revelation.  

[1] https://www.astro.com/im/in/chart_za_e.gif