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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 ...
South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present.
South Africa will take over from Brazil, which is using its presidency to push for greater representation of developing nations on the global stage. South Africa is the only African nation in the G20.
There are a range of environmental issues in Southern Africa, such as climate change, land, water, deforestation, land degradation, and pollution.The Southern Africa region itself, except for South Africa, [1] produces less carbon emissions but is a recipient of climate change impacts characterized by changes in precipitation, extreme weather events and hot temperatures.
Throughout the mid to late 20th century, justice-centered environmental groups sprung up in connection with anti-apartheid movements advocating for change on issues that affected the environment as well as the rights of workers and rural peoples, showing how environmental issues in the country were "inextricably linked to issues of race and ...
South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2]It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
Last week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that mpox, also known as monkeypox, has now been detected in 10 African countries this year including Congo, which has ...
Johannesburg fire – latest: Children among 74 killed in one of the worst blazes in South Africa’s history Namita Singh,Maryam Zakir-Hussain and Eleanor Noyce September 1, 2023 at 1:27 AM