Management at Robben Island Museum said the overwhelming response to their free trips on Heritage Day, to the world heritage site, has been a lesson learnt for organising future events. Scores of people from all over the country registered for the free event. Long queues of visitors were formed at[…]
The driver of a Porsche was gunned down on the streets of Bedfordview‚ Gauteng‚ on Monday. Captain Andre de Jager on Tuesday told TimesLIVE that the victim had just had lunch at a Bedfordview restaurant and was on his way home when he was suddenly attacked. “He stopped at the[…]
The requirements for foreign minors travelling to South Africa are to be simplified‚ home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba said at a media briefing on Tuesday. An international travel advisory to this end will be issued by the end of October after consultation with the Immigration Advisory Board. Cumbersome visa application[…]
Eight “Western Cape Total Shutdown” protesters have been arrested for public violence, following an altercation with police on Jakes Gerwel Drive in Cape Town on Tuesday. Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse protesters after violence flared up in various locations in Cape Town. Protesters[…]
Rivers and waterways, swollen after Florence’s historic deluge, rose dangerously across the Carolinas on Tuesday, closing roads, inundating communities, hindering rescue and repair efforts and preventing evacuees from returning home. Though slow-moving Florence has moved into the U.S. northeast, allowing glimpses of sunlight in the waterlogged state, at least 16[…]
Three Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and occupied East Jerusalem, after they were shot by Israeli forces in separate events. In northern Gaza, thousands of protesters demonstrated on Tuesday afternoon near the Israeli checkpoint crossing Erez, referred to by Palestinians as the Beit Hanoun crossing. The protest was[…]
North Korea has agreed to “permanently” shut one of its main missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in announced at a joint press conference with Kim Jong-un on Wednesday. The leaders of the two Koreas, who held summit talks in Pyongyang, said they agreed[…]
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)’s outgoing president, Sdumo Dlamini, says workers affiliated to their unions are ready for a female to take over the labour federation’s top post. This after deputy president Zingiswa Losi was nominated unopposed for the position – making her the first woman leader[…]
A nine-year-old pupil in Eastwood, Pietermaritzburg was circumcised by “mistake” by a family health programme at his school. The family has reported the matter to the police. The Grade 3 pupil from Panorama Primary underwent a medical circumcision without his mother’s consent and it was not in accordance with Xhosa[…]
Poachers have taken at least 96 million units of South Africa’s abalone in the past 17 years, leaving the future of the snail-like sea delicacy in danger of becoming extinct, according to international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. “Efforts to curb the illegal trade have roundly failed. Once abundant, the[…]
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