A 52-year-old Manenberg father died on Sunday when a boat carrying five people capsized near the Kommetjie Lighthouse in Soetwater. The man was on the boat with his two sons, 18 and 20, and two other young men, 18 and 25, from Parow, National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Kommetjie station[…]
Around 280 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured by high waves that struck coastal areas around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, between the islands of Sumatra and Java, last Saturday (Dec 22) night. As of Monday morning, the death toll reached 281, up from 222 the night before, while 1,016[…]
Protests in parts of Sudan continued for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, as doctors prepared to strike over the rising cost of bread and fuel. At least 10 people have been killed since demonstrations began on Wednesday after the government hiked the price of a loaf of bread from[…]
Heroin, dagga, ecstasy and Tik are just some of the recreational drugs confiscated by police and traffic officials on duty around the country as festive season fever sets in. Between Thursday and Sunday morning, the Western Cape police had booked 1353 Mandrax tablets, 51 grams heroin, 219 grams of cocaine,[…]
The US Senate adjourned on Saturday with no deal to end a partial government shutdown, which is now expected to last until at least Thursday. US President Donald Trump, who is demanding Congress allocated $5bn for his border wall, and Democrats played the blame game as negotiations got under way[…]
At least 62 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a volcano-triggered tsunami hit both sides of Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on Saturday, sending a wall of water crashing some 20 metres inland and sweeping away hundreds of homes and hotels, officials and witnesses have said. At least 20 people are[…]
Firefighters battled a blaze at a house in Belhar, Cape Town, in a suspected petrol bomb attack on Saturday. It’s understood the house is owned by Cape Town taxi boss and underworld figure Colin Booysen, although it’s not his primary residence. The City of Cape Town’s fire and rescue services[…]
A 26-year-old alleged gang member has been arrested for allegedly terrorising some community members of the Cape Flats including Lavender Hill and Steenberg. Police spokesperson FC Van Wyk said following a protracted investigation, members of the Anti Gang Unit detective team pounced on an estate in Paarl on Friday night[…]
At the age of 23, Shamila Mpinga, the daughter of a domestic worker from Dambuza township, outside Pietermaritzburg, was awarded the opportunity of a lifetime. Not only did she qualify to study at Oxford University, but she also received the Rhodes scholarship. When asked how she felt, Mpinga burst out[…]
The UN Security Council has agreed to deploy a team to the Yemeni port of Hudaydah to oversee a ceasefire there. The truce began on Tuesday after being agreed at UN-sponsored talks last week between delegations from the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels. Britain drafted the UN resolution, the first[…]
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