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75 Victoria St, Dormehls Drift, George, South Africa. Coordinates. 23°58′33″S 28°32′7″E. / 23.97583°S 28.53528°E / -23.97583; 28.53528. Deaths. 34. Non-fatal injuries. 16. On 6 May 2024, an apartment building collapsed while under construction in George, South Africa, resulting in 34 deaths.
2022 Jagersfontein dam collapse. / 29.77500°S 25.42750°E / -29.77500; 25.42750. The 2022 Jagersfontein Tailings Dam Collapse was a structural failure of a mine tailings dam near Jagersfontein, located in the Free State province of South Africa, resulting in a mudslide. [3] [4] [1] [2] [5]
e. As a response to South Africa 's apartheid policies, the international community adopted economic sanctions as a form of condemnation and pressure. Jamaica led the movement by being the first country to ban goods from apartheid South Africa in 1959. On 6 November 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 1761, a non-binding ...
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa's flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by resuscitating factories and farms ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
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. [ 1][ 2] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator ...
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The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress ...