The City of Cape Town’s Health Department has stepped up its vigilance for diarrhoea cases among children as summer temperatures rise. The period from November to May is dubbed diarrhoea surge season as it coincides with an increase in the number of diarrhoea cases because of the warmer weather which[…]
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is urging beach goers to be cautious when visiting beaches along the Western Cape, due to the new moon spring tide peaking yesterday. Spring tide happens twice every month, at full moon and at new moon. It lasts for a few days over each[…]
The competition for the top six leadership positions in South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), was no carefully choreographed script such as the one-candidate-per-election of Chinese Communist Party congresses. It was a rip-roaring, full-throated democratic contestation – as raucous as US primary elections. Even more so, with[…]
Day zero can be expected as soon as April 29, 2018, after high water usage by Cape Town residents over the past week, the City of Cape Town said on Tuesday. According to the City, day zero is when almost all of the taps in the city will be turned[…]
There was still uncertainty over the election of Ace Magashule as ANC secretary-general at its 54th national conference at Nasrec on Tuesday. Supporters of newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his ally, Senzo Mchunu, had earlier raised concern that Magashule’s election was irregular. Magashule and Mchunu were both vying[…]
Journalist Jacques Pauw says he will oppose an application by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in the Western Cape High Court over his recently published book. “We will oppose the application and we will argue that I published the information legally and there was huge public interest in what[…]
President Jacob Zuma should not spend one more day as head of state‚ according to ANC veteran Sydney Mufamadi. “We don’t know why he should stay for one more day after this conference. He knows he has got nothing of value to add towards what the ANC is trying to[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sent delegations to China and Russia to ask them to take a more significant role in the peace process with Israel, an official said on Tuesday. The lobbying efforts come after Abbas said the US should no longer mediate talks in the wake of US[…]
Thousands are showing support online for a two-month-old infant who lost his mother when Syrian government forces bombed the besieged, rebel-held suburb of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus. Karim was one month old when he and his mother were caught in an attack on a market in Eastern Ghouta in November.[…]
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday its economy contracted for the first time in eight years due to painful austerity measures as it announced record spending to stimulate growth. The OPEC kingpin said gross domestic product for 2017 shrank by 0.5 percent due to a drop in crude production in line[…]
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