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Following the establishment of Johannesburg, the area was taken over by the Transvaal government who had it surveyed and named it Ferreira's Township, today the suburb of Ferreirasdorp. The first settlement at Ferreira's Camp was established as a tented camp and which soon reached a population of 3,000 by 1887. [ 32 ]
They killed between 20 and 25 people, possibly more, and wounded over 60. The South African government officially claimed that 11 people had died but later raised the figure to 12. The South African Information Bureau claimed that police opened fire on two occasions, one after a grenade had been tossed at police and wounded four policemen.
A Sutter County woman involved in a September collision that killed a driver near Live Oak is now jailed in Yuba City on vehicular manslaughter charges in the fatal wreck.
Deokaran was shot and killed at around 08:00 SAST on 23 August 2021 while she was returning home from dropping her daughter off at school. [3] A vehicle pulled alongside her vehicle and fired multiple shots after she had parked in front of her house in Johannesburg South, Gauteng Province, South Africa resulting in her death.
At least 74 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a fire ripped through a building in Johannesburg – one of the deadliest blazes in South Africa’s history.
Watch live as firefighters gather in the aftermath of deadly fire in Johannesburg that killed at least 73 people on Thursday 31 August. The blaze broke out inside a five-storey building in central ...
In the theory officially accepted today by the city, it bears the name of Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz. In another theory, the city was originally named after Retief alone, initially "Pieter Mouriets Burg" (after his given names) and transformed to its current form. Pinetown – Sir Benjamin Pine, governor of Natal
Name of a Basotho tribe, Sesotho name for a small ravine/stream Moletsane: 1956: Name of a Bataung chief, (Bataung is a Basotho clan named after the lion, 'tau') Moroka: 1946: Named for Dr James Sebe Moroka (1891–1985), [71] later ANC president (1949–52) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign Naledi: 1956 "Star" (Sotho/Pedi/Tswana), originally ...