The annual minstrels carnival parade in Cape Town has been postponed due to logistic reasons, carnival president Richard Stemmet said on Monday. “The parade is postponed to Saturday, January 10.” He said they could not host the parade on Monday because it was the first working day of the year[…]
The Democratic Alliance on Sunday said it was concerned with a lack of clarity about the current state of South Africa’s power supply system as the new year took off. “The power utility and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa must… let us know exactly what the current state of affairs is,[…]
A seven year old boy was killed on Sunday when a fire tore through four shacks in Wallacedene, the Cape Town disaster management said. Ten other people were left homeless as a result, spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said in a statement. In a separate incident, 270 people were displaced when a[…]
A suicide bombing has struck Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killing five people including the bomber, with the armed group al-Shabab quickly claiming responsibility. Witnesses reported a loud explosion, followed by gunfire and plumes of smoke, in Waaberi district on Sunday. The area is close to the heavily fortified international airport. Witnesses[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week. Palestinian officials hope the UN will be more sympathetic to their[…]
Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted, police said. Monday’s clashes came as BNP’s leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in[…]
The union representing 11 public works department employees facing a disciplinary hearing over the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead says the group will not plead guilty, The Sunday Independent reported. “Our members are determined to let the internal disciplinary hearings go ahead. They do not fear anything at[…]
The first report detailing alleged cheating during the matriculation exams at 69 examination centres across the country is expected at the end of January, Umalusi said on Sunday. “At the end of this month, we should be receiving the first formal report,” said Umalusi spokesman Lucky Ditaunyane. He said that[…]
The SA Communist Party (SACP) said on Sunday it supported the decision by the basic education department to not publish the names of matriculants in newspapers. “The SACP hopes that the decision by the basic education department represents the starting point towards individual learners’ results not being published in newspapers[…]
Zero visibility prevented Indonesian Navy divers Sunday from reaching large objects believed to be parts of an AirAsia plane that crashed with 162 people last week, the search chief said. Rescue officials said Saturday that ships equipped with sonar technology had detected four large objects they hoped were parts of[…]
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