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Guilty. Sentence. Combined 358 years (three out of four facing life sentences) Hannah Cornelius was a 21-year-old South African Stellenbosch University student. Hannah, along with her friend Cheslin Marsh, were abducted by a gang in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in May 2017, which led to Cornelius being brutally raped and murdered. [2]
The fair is now known as the South African Book Fair (SABF). The PASA decided to change the name in November 2013 ahead of the 2014 fair to encourage South Africans to take ownership of the event and make it more inclusive. The SABF became a public and trade fair in 2014 and is now owned by the South African Book Development Council (SABDC).
This is a list of newspapers in South Africa. 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 ...
Manuscript Project. longlisted in 2013. EU Literary Award. shortlisted in 2012. CarolAnn "C. A." Davids (born 1971) is a South African writer and editor who is best known for her novels The Blacks of Cape Town, [1] (2013), How To Be A Revolutionary, [2] (2022) and her short stories.
10 March – Allister Sparks, writer, journalist, and political commentator (d. 2016) 13 March – Solomon Sedibane, sculptor, in Sekhukhuneland in Transvaal. 29 March – Stanley Mokgoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, in Pietersburg. 11 April – Denis Goldberg, anti-apartheid movement activist, accused No. 3 in the Rivonia Trial ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa 's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
9 – An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter magnitude scale occurs at Stilfontein 's Hartebeestfontein gold mine. 18 – A South African Air Force Alouette III helicopter crashes next to the N3 highway in Harrismith. 25–27 – The Griqua people gather in Philippolis, Free State to celebrate their heritage. April.
Student. Known for. Anti-apartheid activism. Ashley Kriel (17 October 1966 – 9 July 1987) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who was killed by police in Cape Town on 9 July 1987 [1] [2] for his role in the anti-apartheid movement. In 1999, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission granted Jeffrey Benzien amnesty for his part in the ...