This page presents South Africa's climate context for the current climatology, 1991-2020, derived from observed, historical data. Information should be used to build a strong understanding of current climate conditions in order to appreciate future climate scenarios and projected change. You can visualize data for the current climatology through spatial …
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South Africa: 30 years after apartheid, what has changed? Big socio-political gains have followed apartheid but the legacy of racism and segregation is still starkly visible.
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South African petrol prices have surged by more than 40% in the last year alone. Let's take a closer look at the last decade and what's driving the increases.
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The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 300, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area. A state of disaster has been declared in the area ...
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Over the past year, Africa has experienced five of its top 30 deadliest weather disasters since record-keeping began in 1900, according to statistics from EM-DAT, the international disaster database. That …
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The April 2022 floods were likely the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KZN. Flooding events doubled over the past century.
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Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly. The …
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South Africa experienced no load shedding in 2016 and 2017. It experienced 208 days of power cuts in 2022 and electricity rationing has been with us for every day of the new year.
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Fuel prices have been on a roller coaster in the last year, but how do today's prices compare to a decade ago? Let's take a look.
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The keynote address was delivered by Nelson Mandela, who was soon to become the first black president – and, after the suppression of media and harassment of journalists under apartheid, the future looked bright for media freedom in South Africa. This week, 20 years later, the IPI again met in Cape Town and Raymond Louw, …
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Deaths in South Africa mines, which include the world's deepest gold and platinum operations, rose for a second consecutive year as worker safety deteriorated.
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On average, 75 people are murdered every day, an increase of some 60 percent over the past 10 years. Carjackings have more than doubled over the past 10 years from an average of 31 incidents per ...
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Over the past five decades, disasters related to weather, climate or water hazards, have become a regular occurrence, responsible for the deaths of at least 115 people, and causing $202 million in ...
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With South Africa enduring daily power outages of up to 10 hours, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a nationwide "state of disaster" on Thursday to address an electricity crisis so dire that ...
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We looked at how far South Africa has come in meeting its goals after 30 years of freedom.
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In April 2022, heavy rains, flooding, and subsequent mudslides hit the KwaZulu-Natal coast in South Africa. While efforts are underway to establish the extent of the damage, hundreds of lives have …
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South Africa has declared a national state of disaster over the country's worst-ever spate of rolling blackouts, as the government scrambles to remove obstacles to investing in energy supply ...
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Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using single year official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used. South Africa gdp for 2022 was $405.27B, a 3.53% decline ...
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Latest load shedding statistics released by the CSIR confirm a critically constrained South African power system with YTD 2021 energy not supplied exceeding 2020 levels, and with an increasing trajectory. Urgent intervention is required to stabilize the Eskom coal fired power station availability and performance, while the country pursues a …
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News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this …
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South Africa's president has declared a state of disaster to try and deal with a crippling and unprecedented energy crisis. South Africans have been facing blackouts every day, which have badly ...
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South Africa's power crisis will continue until 2025 - and blackouts will take 5 years to phase out ... but these typically require construction times of 10 years. They would therefore not play ...
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The World Wealth and Income Database has updated its profile for South Africa, showing how the average salary in the country has changed since 1946, and up to 2017.
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South Africa is no stranger to heavy rainfall as it is. Durban, in particular, has seen a number of similar disasters in recent years, including a devastating series …
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This progress was the hard-fought result of years of intra-Quad diplomacy and the convergence of a common threat narrative. After the dissolution of the first Quad in early 2008, nearly 10 years of bilateral and trilateral diplomacy followed among the …
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Key information about South Africa Long Term Interest Rate. South Africa Government Bond Yield: Month End: 10 Years and Over was reported at 10.95 % pa in Jul 2024, compared with 11.39 % pa in the previous month. South Africa Long Term Interest Rate data is updated monthly, available from Aug 2006 to Jul 2024.
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FACTSHEET: Total grid collapse? Billions in losses? We answer 10 questions about load shedding in South Africa. Power outages affect livelihoods, the economy and have even claimed lives.
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South Africa is currently facing the highest interest rates the country has seen since 2009. Here is a look at the country's interest rates over the past 10 years.
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Youth unemployment has remained high for the past 20 years. In 2023 the unemployment rate for 15 to 24-year-olds was 58%. The highest it has been was 67% in 2021.
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The extreme rainfall that triggered one of South Africa's deadliest disasters of this century was made more intense and more likely because of climate change, a new "rapid-attribution" study finds.
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A chronology of key events in the history of South Africa from 4th-century migrations to the present day.
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South Africa gdp growth rate for 2021 was 4.70%, a 10.67% increase from 2020. South Africa gdp growth rate for 2020 was -5.96%, a 6.22% decline from 2019. South Africa gdp growth rate for 2019 was 0.26%, a 1.3% decline from 2018.
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Mine fatalities down as Safety goes up » Sheq Africa. The number of deaths in mining accidents in South Africa has declined by about 50 percent in the past 10 years, according to the Chamber of Mines.
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In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near burg, Orange Free State, caved in. About 1,000 miners …
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