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In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. [1] According to a survey of the South African Audience Research Foundation , about 50% of the South African adult population are newspaper readers and 48% are magazine readers. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Mbombela, formerly Nelspruit, is a city in northeastern South Africa.It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province. Located on the Crocodile River, the city lies about 110 km (68 mi) by road west of the Mozambique border, 330 km (210 mi) east of Johannesburg and 82 km (51 mi) north of the Eswatini border.
The Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature elects the Premier of Mpumalanga.The legislature can force the Premier to resign by passing a motion of no confidence.Although the Executive Council is appointed by the Premier of Mpumalanga, the legislature may pass a motion of no confidence to compel the Premier to reorient the Council.
27–28 – Limpet mines damage the basement of OK Bazaars in Smith Street, Game Stores and Checkers, all supermarkets in central Durban, while a limpet mine is defused in Spar in central Durban. Trevor Manuel is detained by police and is subsequently banned until 1990 , but the ban was to be lifted in 1986 .
A map of Mpumalanga. District municipalities are labelled in capital letters and shaded in three different colours. Mpumalanga province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into three district municipalities which are in turn divided into seventeen local municipalities.
On 12 July 2019, it was announced the five North West Province police officers were arrested during the week in three separate corruption cases. [72] On 4 June 2020, six senior Gauteng police officers where among 14 people arrested on corruption charges. [73] Two other senior officers, now retired, were arrested as well. [74]
In urban areas today, anglicized versions of the months are used, especially by the younger generation, but in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, the old names still stand. Month by month they are, in relation with: