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South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the Johannesburg blaze that killed 74 people is “a wake up call” to address an inner-city housing crisis. “This is a great tragedy felt ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the hope of ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1][2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
49. The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.
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 ...
Chris Brown's forthcoming concert in South Africa has led to renewed focus on the country's shocking levels of violence against women, with campaigners saying it sends the wrong message given his ...
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.
Johannesburg fire – latest: Children among 74 killed in one of the worst blazes in South Africa’s history Namita Singh,Maryam Zakir-Hussain and Eleanor Noyce September 1, 2023 at 1:27 AM