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Jacob Zuma’s graft trial to resume despite deadly protests: The former president faces 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering related to a 1999 purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and military gear from five European arms firms when he was deputy …
Zuma graft trial to resume despite deadly S.Africa protests: JOHANNESBURG – The dragging corruption trial of South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma resumes on Monday despite deadly violence that swept the nation after his imprisonment in an unrelated …
Making sense of the violence: SA social media and the poor ‘weaponised by the leaders of chaos’: We need a radical ethical transformation,’ said economist Iraj Abedian during a Daily Maverick webinar discussion on the recent violence and unrest that has rocked the country.
Demands that Ramaphosa free Zuma within 14 days, but will Zuma apply for parole?: The Free Jacob Zuma campaign has given the government and the president a 14-day ultimatum to release him immediately, but that can only be considered if Zuma applies for a pardon or medical parole.
Grandmothers join South Africa police to fight off looters: South Africans are braced for fresh trouble today when Jacob Zuma, the former president whose imprisonment triggered the worst violence South Africa has seen since the end of apartheid, appears in …
Highways to Hell: A trail of destruction between Johannesburg and Durban: As KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng begin counting the economic and social costs of last week’s violent looting and destruction, Daily Maverick’s Shiraaz Mohamed drove from Johannesburg to Durban to …
The long-term threat to the constitutional model that South Africa chose in 1996 is real: The long-term threat to the constitutional model that we chose in 1996 is real, notwithstanding the belated intervention of some of the security forces.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Provincial Government – The KwaZulu-Natal’s provincial government sits in the legislative buildings in Pietermaritzburg. The site where the legislative buildings are situated was occupied by St Mary’s Church, which was built in the 1860s. A new church was built at the corner of Burger Street and Commercial Road, and opened in 1884. The old building was demolished in 1887 to provide space for the legislative complex. The foundation stone of the new legislative building was laid on 21 June 1887, to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. The building was completed two years later. On 25 April 1889, the Governor of Natal, Sir Arthur Havelock, opened the first Legislative Council session in the new building. When governance was granted to Natal in 1893, the new Legislative Assembly took over the chamber that was used by the Legislative Council since 1889. Further extensions to the parliamentary building were made. The building was unoccupied until 1902, when it was used without being officially opened, due to the fact that the country was engulfed in the Anglo-Boer war. The war also affected the Legislative Assembly, which had to move the venue of its sittings when the chamber was used as a military hospital.
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