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The Christian holidays of Christmas Day and Good Friday remained in secular post-apartheid South Africa's calendar of public holidays. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), a chapter nine institution established in 2004, held countrywide consultative public hearings in June and July 2012 to ...
Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...
Shrien Dewani. Anni Ninna Dewani ( née Hindocha; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda ...
The Insurance Killer, South Africa's First Recorded Serial Killer. 1903–1906. 9. 9+. Committed suicide to avoid apprehension. Murdered people in Claremont, Cape Town so he could get their life insurance. [ 5] Brown, John Frank.
Fact checkers have widely identified the notion of a white genocide in South Africa as a falsehood or myth. [7] [14] The government of South Africa and other analysts maintain that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South Africa, and do not have a racial motivation.
South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation's ...
Independence Day. 3 July. 1944. Nazi Germany. The liberation of Minsk after several years of German occupation in 1944. Two other independence days – 25 March (proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918) and 27 July (independence from the Soviet Union in 1990) – are commemorated unofficially.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers. Then the lights The post South Africa marks holidays despite ...