Government is expressing concern over an increase in gender-based violence this festive season. The Department of Women is now deploying robots to help combat the violence against women and children. It says these will help condition the next generation to be a good friend and educate them about the negative[…]
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES THAT MAY UPSET SOME VIEWERS Clifton fourth beach has been a site of much controversy over the past week, after a private security company removed citizens from the beach on the evening of December 23rd. On Saturday, a second protest was held to highlight allegations[…]
Three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide were killed and 11 others injured when a bomb blast hit their bus on Friday less than four km (2.5 miles) from Egypt’s world famous Giza pyramids, authorities said, Reuters reports. The blast is the first deadly attack against foreign tourists in Egypt[…]
Workers in DR Congo on Friday began preparations for long-awaited elections just two days away as a pre-vote protest called by the country’s opposition appeared to fail. In Kinshasa, about 20 black cases said to contain electronic voting machines were brought in under police escort to a polling station in[…]
An 11-year-old girl has proved to be her brother’s keeper after rescuing him from drowning in a pool in West Riding, Cape Town, on Friday. The 10-year-old boy became unresponsive in the pool and sank to the bottom of the pool. His sister helped him back to the surface and[…]
Three men have been arrested for three different rape cases in Brown’s Farm, Cape Town, over the last three days, provincial police said on Friday. “Three suspects – aged 21, 23 and 25 – were arrested for three different cases of rape which occurred in Brown’s Farm,” said police spokesperson[…]
Five people were arrested by the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) after two children and a woman was killed, and five others wounded in drive-by shootings in Bishop Lavis on Christmas Eve. Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa said the suspects were arrested in an operation that started in Athlone in the early[…]
The Energy Department has confirmed a huge petrol price drop of R1.22 for Wednesday , January 2nd 2019. The price of diesel will decrease by R1.53 and illuminating paraffin will go down by R1.23. “The main driver of these reductions has been sagging international petroleum prices, spurred on by the[…]
At least 19 people have been killed in clashes between Sudanese anti-riot police and protesters in demonstrations triggered by a rise in bread prices, according to a government official. Speaking on state television on Thursday, Boshara Juma, government spokesperson, said: “Nineteen people lost their lives in the incidents including two[…]
Joseph Kabila, the outgoing president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has said long-delayed polls will happen on Sunday – even as uncertainty remains over how prepared the vast country is to hold the vote. The presidential elections, which were first scheduled to take place in 2016, have been repeatedly postponed[…]
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