Theresa May is heading to Brussels later ahead of a critical EU summit to formally sign off the Brexit deal. The prime minister will hold talks with top EU officials, before leaders of all 28 countries meet to endorse the agreement on Sunday. However, Spain has said it will not[…]
A man armed with a grenade demanding protesters be given an audience with French President Emmanuel Macron has been arrested in western France. The man, who was wearing a yellow jacket like the hi-visibility jackets worn by protesters, surrendered after several hours’ negotiation in Angers. The incident comes as Paris[…]
The Public Investment Corporation has resolved to accept the resignation of its CEO Dan Matjila, according to its statement released on Friday evening. This follows days of reports that he was on the cusp of tendering his resignation to the largest asset management body in the continent. The resignation is[…]
A man accused of dismembering his wife and dumping her body parts across Khayelitsha, is fit to stand trial, a Valkenberg panel of experts, comprising two psychiatrists and a psychologist, has found. “The accused has been found fit to stand trial and does appreciate the wrongfulness of the offence,” prosecutor[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill, which is expected to benefit about 6-million workers that currently earn below R3,700 a month when it comes into effect on January 1 2019. Business Day understands that the president enacted four labour bills on Friday following heightened pressure by[…]
On Thursday, the Social Justice Coalition, as well as residents from the areas of Philippi, Kraaifontein and Khayelitsha marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre to highlight their extreme lack of basic services. Approximately 500 residents from Ses’khona in Philippi East, Nkandla in Kraaifontein, and Island, Green Point and KK[…]
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed, and an imam was injured in an attack on a Cape Town mosque, police said on Friday. “According to reports the incident occurred on Tuesday at 19:00 at a mosque at Ntlazane Road, Khayelitsha,” police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana said. “Police arrived at[…]
Football commentator and former Kaizer Chiefs legend Mike Mangena is expected to appear in the Randfontein magistrate’s court on charges of manufacturing drugs. Mangena was arrested on Wednesday in Randfontein on the West Rand along with three other suspects. Authorities said they discovered a drug lab used to manufacture mandrax.[…]
More than 100 community groups across Canada have called on Justin Trudeau’s government to designate January 29 a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance, in memory of the victims of a deadly attack on a Canadian mosque on that date last year. The National Council of Canadian Muslims[…]
Greenhouse gas levels are at levels not seen in the past five million years and time is running out to save Earth from the worst effects of climate change, a UN report said. Since 1990, there has been a 41 percent increase in the warming effect by various greenhouse gases[…]
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