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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 ...
August 16, 2024 at 1:09 PM. By Nellie Peyton. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Johannesburg elected a new mayor on Friday, the seventh in three years to lead South Africa's biggest city as residents ...
On 9 July 2022, a mass shooting took place at a tavern in Orlando, Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa. 16 people were killed in the incident. [ 2][ 3] At about 21:00 GMT, a group of men armed with rifles and a 9mm pistol opened fire on patrons in the tavern. A total of 23 people were shot. 12 people were killed at the scene and 3 others later died ...
The Citizen. The Citizen is a South African daily newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa. The newspaper is distributed nationally in South Africa. It has long been considered a newspaper of record in South Africa. While its core readership is mainly in Gauteng, it also distributes to surrounding provinces such as Free State, Northern ...
Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [ citation needed ] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard , Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in ...
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 ...
Moloi, a resident of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg, isn’t sure she or her neighbors can take much more. They and others across South Africa’s economic hub of about 6 million people ...
The 2019 Johannesburg riots occurred in the South African city of Johannesburg from 1–5 September 2019, leading to the deaths of at least seven people. [2] The riots were xenophobic in nature, targeting foreign nationals from other African countries. [3] Retaliatory actions by rioters in other African nations was taken against South African ...