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The EFF is South Africa’s third-largest party, is allied with a number of anti-ANC unions and draws its primary support from black South Africans who feel left behind by the governing party ...
The 2023 South African National Shutdown was a protest held by the political party Economic Freedom Fighters on 20 March 2023, the day before Human Rights Day. [8] [4] [9] [10] [11] The EFF called for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an end to load-shedding. [3] [5] The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, warned businesses ...
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 ...
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 ...
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's top court began hearing legal arguments on Friday on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can run for parliament, a case whose outcome will affect a wide open national election on May 29 ...
South Africa deployed the army in four of its provinces Friday after at least 21 trucks carrying goods were set on fire in various parts of the country in the span of five days. The move came amid ...
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.