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A video captures a mother searching for her daughter after a devastating fire broke out in a building in Johannesburg this morning. Watch live: Aftermath of deadly Johannesburg fire as at least 73 ...
The ANC long rode on that enthusiasm, but now many South Africans are asking what happened. In Johannesburg, run by a coalition of political parties, anger is against authorities in general as ...
Many white South Africans were outraged at the government's actions in Soweto. The day after the massacre, about 400 white students from the University of the Witwatersrand marched through Johannesburg's city centre in protest of the killing of children. [29] Black workers went on strike as well and joined them as the campaign progressed.
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced an inquiry into the fire. [19] While government officials blamed the crisis on NGOs, who prevented the previous attempts to evict occupiers from similar properties, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] NGOs and inner city property owners argued that it was the duty of the City of Johannesburg to maintain buildings ...
The rate of protests "rose dramatically in the first eight months of 2012", [4] and it was reported that there 540 protests in the province of Gauteng between 1 April and 10 May 2013. [5] In February 2014 it was reported that there had been "nearly 3,000 protest actions in the last 90 days – more than 30 a day– involving more than a million ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed overnight when fire raged through a five-storey Johannesburg apartment block that may have been rented out illegally, known as a "hijacked ...
Today this station, along with a number of other radio stations in South Africa, is owned by Primedia. On 1 September 2014 the station decided to drop the logo that they have been using for over a decade.
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.