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  2. History of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    View of Wale Street, Cape Town c. 1905. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of diamonds and gold in the former Transvaal region in the central highveld in the 1870s and 1880s led to rapid change in Cape Town, as well as in

  3. Brett Kebble - Wikipedia

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    He matriculated from St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein, and earned a law degree from the University of Cape Town in 1986. [5] He was an articled clerk at Mallinicks thereafter. [ 6 ] He entered mining in 1991, when he and his father Roger Kebble , a former mining engineer, acquired a controlling stake in Rand Leases Gold Mining and later ...

  4. Prostitution in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A study by the SA National Aids Council (Sanac) estimated that there was a 60% infection rate, [30] although this varies from area to area, for example, Johannesburg 72%, Durban 54% and Cape Town 40%. [31] The reluctance to use condoms has contributed significantly to the epidemic.

  5. Mineral Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The farm near Johannesburg where gold was first discovered in 1886. The Mineral Revolution is a term used by historians to refer to the rapid industrialisation and economic changes which occurred in South Africa from the 1860s onwards.

  6. The Americans (gang) - Wikipedia

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    During the mid 1990s whilst in prison, Lonte was the first person to raise the flag of a street gang in prison cells, an act forbidden by prison number gang rules. After raising the American gang flag in prison he declared war on his enemies. After Lonte's stint in jail during the mid 1990s, Cape Town street gangs and prison number gang merged.

  7. Central African Republic government suspends Chinese mining ...

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    The government of the Central African Republic suspended a Chinese mining company’s operations in the country, accusing it of cooperating with armed militias, a government decree said. The ...

  8. Hard Livings - Wikipedia

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    The Hard Livings is a Cape Town based street gang whilst the 28s are a South African prison gang. The Hard Livings gang is a large street gang and organized crime group based in Manenberg, Cape Town. [2] A number of other smaller gangs form part of the Hard Livings gang and owe allegiance to it. The Hard Livings used to be one of two 'super ...

  9. Hillbrow - Wikipedia

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    Glynn Griffiths and Paddy Clay, Hillbrow (Cape Town: Don Nelson, 1982) Alan Morris, Bleakness and Light: Inner City Transition in Hillbrow, Johannesburg (Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Press, 1999) Ron Nerio and Jean Halley, The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants (Fordham University Press, 2022)