The Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training, known as Umalusi, has given the 2018 matric exams its seal of approval, with a total of 796 542 pupils expected to know if they successfully completed their high school careers on January 4, 2019. Senior Manager for[…]
The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rains due to a tropical depression in the eastern Philippines has jumped to at least 68, officials have said, warning that the number of fatalities will climb even higher. Fifty-seven of the victims were reported in the eastern region of Bicol,[…]
A total of 120 children became separated from their caregivers on the City of Cape Town’s beaches this festive season, the City said. All the children were ultimately reunited with their families, although 16 were initially placed in the care of the Western Cape Department of Social Development on Boxing[…]
Fifteen people suspected of links to the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains have appeared before a judge in Morocco. The attorney general’s office in Rabat said in a statement on Sunday that the prosecution requested the investigation of the suspects for “setting up a gang to prepare and commit terrorist[…]
Forty-five houses have been left gutted, leaving at least 200 people homeless, following a devastating fire which swept through historic Wuppertal in the Western Cape. The small Cederberg town saw its Moravian Mission Station, clinic and town hall completely destroyed this past weekend. “The emergency care personnel and ambulances from[…]
An armed militia overrun several polling stations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as millions voted to elect a new president. Mai Mai fighters attacked voting stations in six townships in Lubero town in North Kivu province, forcing voters to cast ballots for a candidate of their choice, a[…]
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES WHICH MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS. The City of Cape Town says it will lay charges of animal cruelty against members of a group that slaughtered a sheep on Clifton Fourth Beach on Friday. Demonstrators, including members of the Black People’s National Crisis[…]
Millions of Bangladeshis headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament amid concerns from rights groups over a “restrictive electoral environment”. Polling stations opened at 8am local time (02:00 GMT) and are expected to close at 4pm (10:00 GMT). Counting will begin soon afterwards at more than[…]
Polling stations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) long-delayed election have opened, two years after they were first scheduled to be held. Voting stations opened at 5am (04:00 GMT) on Sunday and will close at 5pm (16:00 GMT). There were small queues of voters in the capital, Kinshasa,[…]
Four people have been killed in separate crashes on the Western Cape roads since the start of the weekend. Traffic Chief, Kenny Africa, says two drivers, one passenger and a pedestrian are among the dead. The latest crashes in the province has pushed the death toll to over 130 since[…]
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