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A suspected underground gas explosion during Johannesburg's evening rush hour ripped open roads and flipped more than 20 cars in South Africa’s biggest city Wednesday, injuring at least nine ...
Lillian Ngoyi. Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, " Mma Ngoyi ", OMSG (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. [1][2][3][4] She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National Congress, and helped launch the Federation of South African Women. Prior to becoming a machinist at ...
The Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) is a classical Pentecostal Christian denomination in South Africa. With 1.2 million adherents, it is South Africa's largest Pentecostal church and the fifth largest religious grouping in South Africa representing 7.6 percent of the population. [2][3][4] Dr. Isak Burger has led the AFM as ...
24 – Nine people are killed and 92 injured in central Johannesburg when a 90kg car bomb explodes just before 10am on the corner of Bree and Von Wielligh Streets outside the African National Congress regional and national headquarters. 25 – A bomb explodes at a taxi rank near the Randfontein station, with no injuries.
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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 ...
Fifth tallest building in Africa and second tallest in sub-Saharan Africa. The Carlton Centre was the tallest building in Africa for 46 years, from 1973 until 2019. Ponte City Apartments. 173 m (568 ft) 54. 1975. Johannesburg. Second-tallest residential building in Africa, and tallest in sub-Saharan Africa.
35 killed. The South African Police shot at a crowd of funeral-goers stopped by them on Maduna Road in Uitenhage, on the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. The first shot was at a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle who joined the crowd from a side street and lifted his hand in a Black Power salute. Pebco Three murders.