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Around 21:30 on 12 December 2016, while on an eastward course some 10 nautical miles offshore from Jeffreys Bay, the captain and co-pilot of a Boeing 737 cargo aircraft reported he saw an unidentified glowing green object rise past the cockpit, reach a cloud layer some 1,000 feet (300 m) above the plane before turning back to earth.
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. In international sport, a South African team of 68 athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017), 2016 October Baghdad attacks. Attacks targeting a Shi'ite Muslim gathering, a police check-point, and the family of an anti-Islamic State Sunni paramilitary leader, kill at least 55 people in Iraq. ISIL claims responsibility as a response to take back launching of its stronghold Mosul by the Iraqi forces.
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Air pollution in Johannesburg reaches annual mean of 41 PM2.5 and 85 PM10, more than recommended. [41] Population: 4,434,827. [37] 2013 10 February: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Final football contest played in Johannesburg. 5 December: Nelson Mandela dies in Johannesburg. 2015 – October: #FeesMustFall protest. [42] 2016 22 August: Herman ...
Disasters and accidents Illegally stored explosives cause an explosion in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province. (Reuters) A fire breaks out in the ICU ward and Maternity ward of Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor, Malaysia, killing six patients and injured two others. All of the patients killed were dependent ...
Logo of the newspaper in 2008. TimesLIVE (aka TshisaLIVE) is a South African online newspaper that started as The Times daily newspaper. The Times print version was an offshoot of Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it was delivered gratis; non-subscribers paid R2.50 per edition in the early years.
5 – Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announces that the 2014 matric pass rate has dropped to 75.8% after reaching a record high of 78.2% in 2013. [1]19 – The Constitutional Court rules that a bulk SMS sent out by the Opposition Democratic Alliance before the 2014 general election, alleging that President Jacob Zuma "stole" R246 million of taxpayers' money to fund controversial ...