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An exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa ended Friday after nearly two weeks, as authorities released a ...
Relatives of 44 construction workers trapped under a collapsed building in the South African city of George faced a fourth day of anguished waiting on Thursday as heavy machinery worked at the ...
A preliminary report on the collapse was handed to the Western Cape Premier on 1 August 2024, but by November the results of various probes into the collapse had not yet been announced. Atholl Mitchell, the engineer responsible for signing off the plans for the building, was placed on precautionary suspension by the Engineering Council of South ...
Toggle Second wave: December 2020 – April 2021 subsection. 2.1 December 2020. 2.2 January 2021. ... COVID-19 cases in South Africa (Click for all data) ...
20 March – South Africa prepares for a "nationwide shutdown" as the military is deployed ahead of protests by the Economic Freedom Fighters. [8] 2 June – In February 2023, South Africa experienced a cholera outbreak that grew from 2 initial cases to 99 confirmed cases in Tshwane over the following months. Jubilee Hospital reported 17 deaths ...
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Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa seven days before (left) and on the first day (right) of the COVID-19 national lockdown. After the lockdown the market stall traders that normally setup on the square everyday are not present and only people exempt from the lockdown (security personnel and municipal employees) can be seen.
Observers stated that the lockdown had slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every six days, [177] and by 18 April, to a rate of doubling every eight days. [178] As the end of the first lockdown period approached, state governments and other advisory committees recommended extending the lockdown. [ 179 ]