A senior public works department employee has become the first official involved in the upgrades of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead to take the fall for the R246 million project, City Press reported on Sunday. Itumeleng Molosi, 58, director of projects, pleaded guilty to irregularly appointing contractors and flouting procurement[…]
VOC has once again launched its annual Stationery Drive. The project in itself is one that mobilizes the goodwill of a community into donating stationery for school children and in so doing, equips young students with the tools they need for school. This social outreach programmes also aims to assist[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema has married his long-time girlfriend Mantwa Matlala in a private ceremony under heavy security in his hometown Seshego, Polokwane in Limpopo, according to reports on Sunday. Sunday Times reported that the traditional ceremony on Saturday was policed by more than 20 security guards in black suits[…]
Suspended Hawks boss Anwa Dramat in a letter to Police Minister Nathi Nhleko which was leaked to the Sunday Times offered to take early retirement on condition that his suspension was reversed. An unnamed source told the publication that Dramat had refused to hand over Hawks files on matters such[…]
Rescuers scoured the Java Sea for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people which went missing in bad weather Sunday en route from Indonesia to Singapore, the third crisis for a Malaysian carrier this year. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the Airbus A320-200 around an hour after it left Juanda[…]
A rescue operation is under way in high winds in Greek waters for an Italian ferry carrying 466 people that has caught fire, Greek officials said early Sunday. Vessels close to the stricken “Norman Atlantic”, located 33 nautical miles off the small Greek island of Othonoi, rushed to give assistance[…]
The United States and NATO will mark the formal end of the war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the[…]
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday paid tribute to the former chairman of the National House of Traditional Leaders Nkosi Impiyezintombi Mzimela, who died on Christmas day. “On behalf of government and all the people of South Africa, we would like to convey our deepest words of condolence to the family,[…]
The body of an 18-year-old boy was found during a search and rescue mission on Saturday at the Strand main beach, City of Cape Town said. Vernon Naude was swept away by a rough rip current on Friday, while attempting to rescue his 13-year-old cousin, the city’s disaster management spokesman[…]
The US-led coalition pounded the Islamic State group with 39 air strikes Thursday and Friday, including more than a dozen near the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane. The 13 strikes conducted Thursday in Kobane, which is known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic, destroyed 17 fighting positions, as well as IS[…]
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