Colombians are preparing to bury scores of decomposing bodies as rescuers continue to search for victims of weekend flooding and landslides that devastated a city in the southern part of the country, killing at least 273 people. Desperate families queued for blocks in the heat to search a morgue for[…]
As the dust settles on all the excitement following a weekend of stalls, entertainment and endless fun at the 2017 Boland Summer Festival, organiser’s report an overwhelmingly successful event. Described by many as one of the most successful events on the local calendar, the 18-year-old event was initiated by the[…]
A man accused of the rape and murder of 11-year-old Stacha Arendse made his first appearance in the Mitchells Plain Magistrates Court on Friday, and is scheduled to reappear in court on Monday. Randy Tango was taken into custody shortly after the child’s body was found in Tafelsig on Tuesday[…]
Families and rescuers searched desperately on Sunday through mud-plastered rubble for victims of flooding and landslides in Colombia that have killed 254 people, injured hundreds and devastated entire neighborhoods. Several rivers burst their banks near the southwestern city of Mocoa in the early hours of Saturday, sending water, mud and[…]
An Egyptian court ruled on Sunday that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia is void, judicial sources said, potentially reviving a deal that triggered protests in Egypt. A court in January rejected a government plan to transfer the two uninhabited islands[…]
This is a power show by President Jacob Zuma who clearly believes he has enough power in the NEC and low enough risk of a Parliament split to be removed. As expected PGxit occurred as Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were removed in an open attack on Treasury.[…]
The Police’s Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units of the Western Cape have over the past three months secured the conviction of 97 perpetrators of crimes. They say the crimes include rape, assault, child neglect, kidnapping, attempted murder and statutory rape. The ages of the perpetrators are between[…]
Civil society groups will gather outside the offices of the National Treasury in Pretoria on Monday morning. This in protest against what they call attacks on the Treasury and State capture. The protest follows President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle which included axing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordan and his deputy[…]
Nkosinathi Msimango, the alleged mastermind behind the break-in at the Office of the Chief Justice, is set to find out on Monday whether or not he will be granted bail. Msimango, 34, appeared for a formal bail application before Magistrate Lebogang Leshaba at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday morning.[…]
The Federal Executive of the Democratic Alliance has taken a decision to institute formal disciplinary action against Helen Zille, following recommendations presented by the Party’s Federal Legal Commission (FLC). This follows her controversial tweets on colonialism, in which she states colonialism was “not that bad”. Addressing the media on Sunday,[…]
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