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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 ]
At the time of her murder, the family lived in the Johannesburg suburb of Fourways and Matthews was studying for a BCom Finance degree at Bond University in the Johannesburg suburb of Morningside. Her 21st birthday party was planned for the day after she disappeared. [2] [3] On Friday 9 July 2004, she was abducted from the parking lot at Bond ...
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.
The Boksburg Lake (& Wemmer Pan & Zoo Lake) murder: On the morning of 27 October 1964 a young teacher, Mr Robert Bekker, made a grisly discovery. On the western shore of Boksburg Lake, in a suitcase was a middle-aged woman's decapitated torso, covered in plastic, brown paper and a sheet.
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.
Thembalethu Mpahlaza, a provincial official for Forensic Pathology Services, said 74 bodies had been retrieved, 12 of whom were children and 24 of them women. Johannesburg fire kills at least 74 ...
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.
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