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Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators who believe a crisis is hollowing out the country’s education system.
The Constitution of South Africa protects all basic political freedoms. However, there have been many incidents of political repression, [1] dating back to at least 2002, [2] as well as threats of future repression in violation of this constitution leading some analysts, civil society organisations and popular movements to conclude that there is a new climate of political repression [3] [4] [5 ...
South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2]It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
Sharpeville marked a turning point in South Africa's history; the country found itself increasingly isolated in the international community. The event also played a role in South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961. [17] The Sharpeville massacre contributed to the banning of the PAC and ANC as illegal organisations.
The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on all sides by vast tracts of mostly empty grassland owned by prosperous ...
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2023. 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 44 per 100,000 in 2023 after a brief drop in 2020.
South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national power outages beginning at the end of 2007. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator, Eskom , and various parliamentarians have attributed these rolling blackouts to insufficient generation capacity.
The Times of South Africa was a daily printed newspaper that was delivered free to 137,054 (according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations statistics) Sunday Times subscribers five days a week. Tabloid in size, it was South Africa's first totally interactive newspaper, published in tandem with the TimesLIVE website. [1]