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As of 2pm today, he said, 61 people have been treated in hospitals around Johannesburg. Major says disasters in city ‘end today' Thursday 31 August 2023 16:01 , Chris Stevenson
The building, 80 Albert Street, was built in 1954 as the head office of Johannesburg's Non-European Affairs Department, serving as a Pass Office for enforcing pass laws controlling the movement of black people into Johannesburg under the apartheid system. [5] From 1994, the building housed a women's shelter later called the Usindiso Women's ...
In Johannesburg, run by a coalition of political parties, anger is against authorities in general as people wonder how maintenance of some of the country's most important economic engines went astray.
The political party with the majority in most municipalities in 2016 South Africa is the African National Congress, however, the Democratic Alliance managed to gain the key metros of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.
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.
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into ...
Spectators poured into the Ellis Park Stadium in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, for the local Soweto derby association football match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. There was a 60,000-capacity crowd in the stadium, but reports suggest a further 30,000 more fans were trying to gain entry to the stadium.
26 – A Limpet mine explodes at the Ciskei Consul General's offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, injuring one. September. 8 – Two bombs damage sub-stations in Johannesburg, in Randburg and Sandton. 11 – More sub-stations are damaged by Limpet mines in Johannesburg, in Bryanston North and Fairlands.