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May 7, 2024 at 7:12 AM. By shafiek tassiem and Wendell Roelf. GEORGE, South Africa (Reuters) -Rescuers were using cranes, drills and their bare hands to try to reach dozens of people trapped when ...
South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the Johannesburg blaze that killed 74 people is “a wake up call” to address an inner-city housing crisis. “This is a great tragedy felt ...
News24. News24 is an English-language South African news website created in October 1998 by the multinational media company, Naspers. Its team of approximately 100 journalists, [1] led by editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson, are based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Gqeberha. Its brands include Fin24, Sport24, Channel24, Health24 ...
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.
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]
COVAX. The US delivers Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa as part of the COVAX initiative in 2021. South Africa has so far paid R283 million ($20 million) to the organization in December 2020. COVAX has delivered 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine to the country on 28 June 2021.
The 1969 Tulbagh earthquake remains the most destructive earthquake in South African history. The earthquake occurred in the Tulbagh area and measured 6.3 on the Richter scale, stronger than that of the 1809 Cape Town earthquake which destroyed a local Milnerton farm. [3] [4] 14 April 1970. Tulbagh - Ceres - Wolseley area.
A COVID-19 testing tent at the Paarl Provincial Hospital. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) started testing people in South Africa for SARS-CoV-2 on 28 January 2020, [47] and by 7 February had conducted 42 such tests. [48] By mid-March, state hospitals were offering free COVID-19 testing.