S.H. Kress & Co. s policy of excluding African Americans from their lunch counters changed the trajectory of the civil rights discussion in Charleston. With no Black college students in the area to stage a sit-in, 16 boys and eight girls from Burke High School did so at Kress 281 King St. location.
A high court has ordered Old Mutual to pay R1.7 billion to a group of Fidentia investors - the widows and orphaned children of mineworkers who died in service.