South Africa Conflict and Demonstration Events Aggregated by Month

ACLED tracks political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in South Africa through weekly updated temporal aggregates. The records are organized by country-year and country-month to facilitate longitudinal analysis of conflict trends.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in 'political violence' counts to identify periods of high instability
• Comparing 'civilian-targeting' events against 'demonstration' frequencies to assess the nature of civil unrest
• Forecasting future conflict levels using the 'country-month' historical aggregates

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Categorization of political violence and civilian-targeting
• Standardized ACLED methodology

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific incident locations
• Full event-level details are gated behind external registration

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

South Africa