The price of 93 and 95 octane petrol will decrease by R1.27 and R1.23 a litre on Wednesday, the energy department said on Friday. The price of diesel would decrease by between R1.04 and R1.05 per litre. The price of illuminating paraffin would decrease by R1.44 per litre. Liquefied petroleum[…]
People should be extra cautious on beaches during the full moon spring tide, which peaks on Monday, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Friday. The tide would cause stronger than normal rip currents around the coast starting on Friday and peaking on Monday, spokesman Craig Lambinon said in a[…]
Hundreds of refugees who have been living in a church in the South African city of Johannesburg and told to vacate by December 31, are still in precarious situation without alternative accommodation, according to a church leader. Bishop Paul Verryn, whose leadership at the Central Methodist Church ended on Wednesday,[…]
In the worst series of attacks targeting the peaceful Sweden Muslim minority, a third mosque arson was reported on Thursday in Sweden’s fourth largest city Uppsala, as police launched a manhunt for perpetrators. “Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,” Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police[…]
After nearly a week of searching for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, rescue teams battling monsoon rains had their most successful day yet on Friday, more than tripling the number of bodies pulled from the Java Sea, some still strapped to their seats. Of the 30 corpses recovered so[…]
Kurdish Peshmerga forces say they have recaptured a strategic village in northern Iraq from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Sources told Al Jazeera on Friday that at least three Peshmerga fighters died when the group captured the village of Sultan Abd’Allah, just 80km away from the[…]
Video footage taken at Groote Schuur’s maternity ward is being studied after a 13-day-old baby was kidnapped from the Cape Town hospital. The little boy was asleep in his cot next to his mother’s bed when he was taken. A nurse woke up the mother at 2:45am to ask her[…]
A search continued on Thursday for a 22-year-old man who went missing while swimming at Far Eastern Beach along the False Bay coast, the NSRI said. “A police dive unit will continue in an ongoing search operation for the missing man who is feared to have drowned,” National Sea Rescue[…]
A seven-year-old boy has drowned in the Boknes Lagoon, outside Port Alfred, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Thursday. “At 10.10am…[an NSRI] crew were alerted by a frantic father reporting his child missing,” spokesman Craig Lambinon said. “The father reported that he was racing to the beach from his[…]
The family of jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste have applied to have him deported from Egypt, describing it as their “best option” after a court ordered a retrial for him and two of his colleagues. Greste, along with colleagues Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, has been imprisoned[…]
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