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Poundland, a supermarket chain selling all items for £1, opens its first store at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. [33] Netto, a Danish discount food supermarket chain, launches its first UK store in Leeds. The sharpest rise in unemployment since 1981 has taken it to more than 1,700,000, with 155,000 jobs having been lost in Britain since April.
Lusaka (/ l uː ˈ s ɑː k ə /; loo-SAH-kə) is the capital and largest city of Zambia.It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. [7] Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about 1,279 metres (4,196 ft).
A truck crashes into several minibus taxis at an intersection in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, killing five people and injuring nine others. (News24) An explosion at a propane store in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan , Quebec , Canada leaves three people missing.
The beginning of relations between South Africa and the UK began on 31 May 1910 when the Union of South Africa was founded as a Dominion of the British Empire. From 1910 until South Africa declared itself a republic on 31 May 1961, South Africa fought in support and as a part of the British Empire in both World War I and II.
Ackermans is a South African chain of clothing retail stores. Founded in 1916 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Ackermans has over 700 stores across Southern Africa, including in Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Zambia, [3] and is headquartered in Kuilsrivier near Cape Town.
The Jewish population of Los Angeles has seen a sharp increase in the past several decades, owing to internal migration of Jews from the East Coast, as well as immigration from Israel, France, the former Soviet Union, the UK, South Africa, and Latin America, and also due to the high birth rate of the Hasidic and Orthodox communities who ...
Gateway Theatre of Shopping or Gateway is a shopping centre located on uMhlanga Ridge in uMhlanga, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Gateway Theatre of Shopping is one of the top 100 largest malls in the world. . [3] Gateway sees more than two million visitors coming through its doors per month. [4]
Spaza shop in Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town ‘Spaza’ is a generic isiZulu colloquial term, meaning ‘hidden’or 'camouflaged'. [1] [2] Spaza shops, also known as tuck shops originated in Apartheid-era South Africa when enterprising Historically Disadvantaged Individuals were restricted from owning formal businesses, they began setting up informal, micro-convenience shops from their homes to ...