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KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: events and estimated deaths in June 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 4 eventsP of organized violence in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa in June 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 4P. UCDP counts 4P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. UCDP recorded no eventsP in May 2026.

UCDP recorded no events in June 2025. KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa holds 19 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in South Africa in June 2026. In June 2025, the share was 0 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: South Africa, June 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of South Africa has each event.

Table 1. KwaZulu-Natal province, June 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
19 Jun 2026uMgungundlovu municipality, KwaZulu-Natal provinceMarch and March, Operation Dudula; CiviliansOne-sided111
23 Jun 2026eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal provinceMarch and March, Operation Dudula; CiviliansOne-sided111
30 Jun 2026KwaZulu-Natal provinceMarch and March, Operation Dudula; CiviliansOne-sided111
30 Jun 2026eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal provinceMarch and March, Operation Dudula; CiviliansOne-sided111

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. KwaZulu-Natal province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of June 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
March and March, Operation Dudula4P4P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of KwaZulu-Natal province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P15PCandidate Events
August 20261P1PCandidate Events
June 20264P4PCandidate Events
January 20261P2PCandidate Events
October 202511GED

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KwaZulu-Natal province: all figures

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ConflictStats. KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: events and estimated deaths in June 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/south-africa/kwazulu-natal-province/month/2026-06/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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