A partial US government shutdown has taken effect after US lawmakers failed to break a budget impasse. Trump, who has to sign off any deal, is insisting at least $5bn (£4bn) in funding be included for his long-promised wall along the Mexican border. Lawmakers adjourned last-minute talks on Friday evening.[…]
Former President Jacob Zuma has taken to Twitter to remind his “haters” that he’s going nowhere. The former president retweeted a video post that made reference to his participation in the chess games at the Jacob Zuma Foundation annual chess open tournament. The video, posted under the hashtag #ZumaChess, was[…]
Intensive searches by police, a dog unit and community organisations have not yielded any success as efforts to find missing Delft girl Linathi Titshala, 9, continue, authorities confirmed on Friday. Linathi went missing on Sunday morning and was last seen in Cork Tree Street, Thubelitsha, at about 10:00. She also[…]
The recent increase in burial prices and time restrictions at Mowbray Muslim cemetery has been met with concern from Muslim undertakers who have said it was done without prior consultation. Mowbray and Johnson road cemeteries are privately owned and are not under the municipality. Although the cost of burial at[…]
The arrest of Chinese telecoms executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of Washington sent the Chinese-Canada relationship spiralling into crisis. Caught between two superpowers, what are Canada’s options? When Wenran Jiang heard the news that Canada had detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, he knew it spelled trouble. In an op-ed[…]
Migrants in Libya are facing “unimaginable horrors,” including extrajudicial killings, sexual abuse, torture, slavery and arbitrary detention, a United Nations report said. The new report, released by UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Human Rights Office on Thursday, calls on European Union states to re-examine their cooperation[…]
The minstrels fraternity face severe criticism again following issues at the annual ‘Voorsmaakie’ parade, the pre-event leading up to the Tweede Nuwe Jaar parade, which took place on the Day of Reconciliation. Complaints have been laid against the minstrel groups due to the abuse and misuse of public toilets and[…]
At least eight people have been killed in protests that have swept across Sudan for a second consecutive day amid rising public anger over soaring prices and other economic woes. Authorities on Thursday declared a state of emergency in the eastern city of Gadarif, where six protesters died during clashes[…]
Long-delayed elections due to be held in DR Congo on Sunday will be postponed by a week after voting machines were destroyed in a warehouse fire, the country’s electoral board said on Thursday. “The presidential, legislative and provincial elections will therefore take place on December 30, 2018,” the head of[…]
Alleged Cape Town gang boss Colin Booysen’s lawyers punched holes through an intimidation case with an audio recording which suggested the alleged victim lied to avoid being charged with intimidation himself. Colin Booysen, right, in the dock at Cape Town Magistrate’s Court earlier this year alongside fellow defendant Nafiz Modack.[…]
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