The Arab coalition supporting Yemen’s government against Iran-backed Houthi militias said a 48-hour ceasefire ended at midday (0900 GMT) Monday due to repeated violations by Houthi militias and their allies. “There is no respect (for the truce), only violations,” the coalition spokesman Major General Ahmed Assiri said, adding that there[…]
President Jacob Zuma will on Monday meet the 101 Veterans of the African National Congress (ANC), who have called on him to resign. The meeting between the party’s National Working Committee and the veterans was postponed from Friday as Zuma was unable to attend. Earlier in November, the veterans spoke[…]
The EFF has slammed the proposed National Minimum wage of R3500 per month, announced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday, saying that the move favours business at the expense of workers. Ramaphosa announced the findings of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) report. Among them, is a proposal of an[…]
Thousands of child maintenance defaulters are still off the hook despite an amendment of the Maintenance Act last year which would have got them blacklisted. Regulations governing the blacklisting of maintenance defaulters will now not be finalised until next year, the Justice Department said. So far 17,000 cases have been[…]
More than 90 foreign students have cancelled their study plans in South Africa due to the #FeesMustFall protests that have rocked campuses around the country. The 92 were due to study at the University of Cape Town as part of the institution’s Study Abroad programme. They include 10 University of[…]
Illegal power connections continue to endanger lives, electricity parastatal Eskom said on Saturday. “Many people continue to connect electricity illegally, ignoring warnings that electricity is extremely powerful and can be deadly if not treated with care and respect,” Eskom said in a statement. A case in point was a community[…]
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced that early payment for all social grant beneficiaries. The agency says grants payments for December will commence on 28 of November and will end on the 15th of December 2016. SASSA also announced that funds will become available for collection at ATMs[…]
The New Age newspaper, owned by the Gupta family, scored up to R17.1 million in an alleged money-laundering scheme involving Eric Wood, CEO of Gupta-linked financial services advisory group, Trillian. So say emails and documents before the Pretoria High Court by Regiments Capital, a competitor company of which Wood had[…]
All medical facilities in Syria’s rebel-held Aleppo have been destroyed, health officials and opposition activists have told Al Jazeera, as another day of ferocious government bombardment on the besieged city left dozens of people dead. Air raids, barrel bombs and artillery fire killed at least 56 people on Saturday, volunteers[…]
At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh, India’s biggest state, police said. The train was travelling between the northeastern city of Patna and the central city of Indore on Sunday when the incident happened, throwing several carriages off[…]
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