Deaths2020489,744461,006#Annual Birth Rate201620.9821.3# per Ths. pop.Annual Death Rate20169.7910.1# per Ths. pop.Annual Factbook Background Background: South Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest human fossils, and during the modern era the region was settled by Khoisan and Bantu ...
More than 20 South African boys have died during coming-of-age rituals in the past week. Police say botched circumcisions are the probable cause. Every year in South Africa, boys from several of the country's tribal groups undergo these traditional "initiation rituals." Al Jazeera's Haru ...
The course of the war can be divided into three periods. During the first phase, the British in Southern Africa were unprepared and militarily weak. Boer armies attacked on two fronts: into the British colony ofNatalfrom the SAR and into the northernCape Colonyfrom the Orange Free State. Th...
South Africa Reports 57 Percent Jump in Deaths, AIDS BlamedA widely awaited national mortality study released today shows South Africa had a 57 percent jump in reported deaths between 1997 and 2002, providing a ...
(SAMIDRC) began to arrive as replacements for EACRF in December 2023, but deployment has been slow and six men have already been lost to M23 mortar fire (DRC News, April 3;Kinshasa Times, April 9). SAMIDRC is led by South Africa’s Major General Monwabisi Dyakopu, who fought M23 ...
South Africa has reported its first death due to cholera as cases rise to five. Malawi is battling its deadliest cholera outbreak to date, with over 1,300 deaths.
South Africa, Spain and Slovenia: Rohit Kachroo travels to South Africa seeking answers to the 21 teenage deaths in a nightclub. Ellie Pitt examines a new Spanish law that requires employers to give paid 'menstrual leave" to women who suffer from disabli
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A new report estimates that South Sudan's civil war has caused nearly 400,000 "excess deaths" since fighting erupted in late 2013.
South Africa Charges Miners in Deaths.The article discusses charges filed against hundreds of miners by South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority after a workers' strike in protest of working conditions ended in a police shooting which resulted in 34 deaths, with a focus on the government's...
The deaths of 19 people in bar shootings have reignited the debate on access to weapons in South Africa.