The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and “intentionally” sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot’s frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s “intention (was)[…]
President Jacob Zuma sent his condolences on Wednesday to the friends, families and colleagues of the 150 people killed in a plane crash in the French Alps. “We also extend our sympathies to the government and the peoples of all other countries whose nationals perished in the crash,” Zuma said[…]
The EFF on Wednesday condemned President Jacob Zuma’s alleged “anti-black” remarks made in a speech to the SA Local Government Association. “The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns the racist anti-black and self-hating remarks of President Zuma that poor South Africans are lazy particularly because whites are not in control,” spokesman Mbuyiseni[…]
Numsa members working at the Medupi power station in Lephalale, Limpopo, marched against Eskom demanding better working conditions, the union said on Wednesday. “We call on Eskom to respond to the demands of workers,” the union’s collective bargaining head Steve Nhlapo said in a statement. The National Union of Metalworkers[…]
Eskom’s chief executive Tshediso Matona has approached the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) over unfair suspension, the dispute resolution body said on Wednesday. “The CCMA can confirm that a referral was received on the 23 March 2015 from Mr Tshediso Matona relating to unfair suspension,” it said in[…]
French investigators have announced that they had succeeded in extracting “usable data” from the first black box recovered from the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps. Remi Jouty, head of French air crash investigation agency BEA, said on Wednesday that there was still not “the slightest explanation”[…]
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of regional allies have launched a military operation in Yemen against the Houthi rebels, who deposed the US-backed Yemeni president last month. Adel al-Jubair, Saudi ambassador to the US, said on Wednesday that a coalition consisting of 10 countries, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),[…]
The United States and its allies launched airstrikes on the Iraqi city of Tikrit, the Defence Department said late Wednesday, in support of an Iraqi government offensive to retake the northern city from the radicals. The operation by the US-led coalition had been requested by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the[…]
Closing lanes between homes in Eastridge in Mitchell’s Plain may be a solution to the ongoing crime in the area, according to the local Community Policing Forum chairperson, Abie Isaacs. This comes following the death of a 28 year old woman who was caught in the gun crossfire between two[…]
Thailand is one of the world’s prime tourist destinations and seen as something of a haven for those seeking to practice Buddhism. And whilst a vast majority of the country’s 67 million inhabitants do practice the religion, the country also has a somewhat diverse minority population. Islam in Thailand, largely[…]
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