• 09/22/2024

Deadly Fire Exposes Freedom’s Failed Promise in South Africa

Wall Street Journal

At least 77 people died in the fire in downtown Johannesburg in the early hours of Thursday morning, all of them Black and among the poorest in the sprawling metropolis christened the City of Gold by its white founders a century and a half ago.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/deadly-fire-exposes-freedoms-failed-promise-in-south-africas-city-of-gold-b6a9f1f3