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  2. News24 (website) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 2023 Western Cape floods - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 Western Cape floods were a devastating series of floods affecting the Western Cape province of South Africa as a result of heavy rainfall on 24-25 September 2023. [1] The flooding resulted in at least 11 fatalities, the closure of over 200 roads, and over 80,000 people being left without electricity. [2] [3]

  4. Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.

  5. 2021 Suez Canal obstruction - Wikipedia

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    In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. [4] The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck on opposite canal banks ...

  6. Media24 - Wikipedia

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    www .media24 .com. Media24 is a South African media company with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, book publishing, television, logistics and distribution. It is part of a multinational group of media and ecommerce platforms. The company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in Foreshore, Cape Town.

  7. Cape Town water crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...

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  9. South African energy crisis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...