EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in South Africa
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 8 Mar 2024 and 4 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 40 events of organised violence in South Africa from published sources. Their best estimate is 62 people killed — and their own range runs 61–62, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 61–62.
40 placed precisely enough to map.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
UCDP low and high agree · 23 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 10 ev
4–5 · 5 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 4 — the sources agree.
CATA - Codeta · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
South Africa, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records South Africa under the name “South Africa”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.