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75 Victoria St, Dormehls Drift, George, South Africa. Coordinates. 23°58′33″S 28°32′7″E. / 23.97583°S 28.53528°E / -23.97583; 28.53528. Deaths. 34. Non-fatal injuries. 16. On 6 May 2024, an apartment building collapsed while under construction in George, South Africa, resulting in 34 deaths.
2022 Jagersfontein dam collapse. / 29.77500°S 25.42750°E / -29.77500; 25.42750. The 2022 Jagersfontein Tailings Dam Collapse was a structural failure of a mine tailings dam near Jagersfontein, located in the Free State province of South Africa, resulting in a mudslide. [3] [4] [1] [2] [5]
South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present. [ 1][ 2] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator ...
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa's flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by resuscitating factories and farms ...
The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [ 25][ 26][ 27] The economy is the most industrialised, technologically advanced, and diversified in Africa. [ 28] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South Africa ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
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The South Africa-United Kingdom Bilateral Forum was founded in 1997 to promote Anglo-South African relations by serving as a forum for the two countries to meet on a bi-annual basis so as to enhance economic and political relations. Top government officials from both countries often meet through this forum to discuss important issues.