Some institutions of higher learning were inundated with prospective and returning students on the first day of registration on Monday. This is despite pleas by institutions for students to use online processes for inquiries and checking the status of their applications. Wits University says it will only accept over five-thousand[…]
Following an increase in the results of the matric class of 2018, questions have been raised about whether it is a true reflection of an improving standard of education in the country. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the 2018 National Senior Certificate Examination results on 3rd January 2019, indicating[…]
The government of Gabon declared that it was in control after an attempted coup by army rebels Monday and that it had arrested most of those involved. “Calm has returned, the situation is under control,” government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou said. Only hours earlier, soldiers burst into state radio and called[…]
A total of 120 suspects were arrested from Friday 4 January 2019, until Sunday 6 January 2019 in the Blue Downs cluster. Forty-five people were arrested for the possession of different drugs; eleven for the possession of dangerous weapons and the rest for various crimes including rape and assault. According[…]
No arrests have been made after the bludgeoning of a convicted paedophile in Kenilworth last Thursday. 74-year-old Donald Bridge, also known as “Captain Porn” was taken to Groote Schuur Hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. Bridge was given the nickname after it was found that he preyed on[…]
The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of South Africa (Unisa) has called for a “national shutdown” should certain demands not be met by the institution on January 7 2019. “Today there will be no operations or registration taking place until further notice,” Eastern Cape SRC deputy chairperson Lungile[…]
A 12-year-old girl and her 46-year-old father sustained serious injuries after a bus collided with their car as they were turning into the Garden Route Mall on the Knysna Road, George, on Sunday. ER24 spokesperson Ross Campbell said paramedics and other services, including George Fire and Rescue Services arrived on[…]
Indian scientists have hit out at speakers at a major science conference for making irrational claims. Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had dismissed the discoveries of Issac Newton and Albert Einstein. They had also said ancient Hindus had invented stem cell[…]
Saudi courts will notify women by text message when they get divorced, in a new regulation that took effect on Sunday, officials said. The measure approved by the justice ministry appears aimed at curbing seemingly rampant cases of men secretly ending marriages without informing their wives, AFP said. “Women… will[…]
Israel has arrested five Jewish seminary students in the occupied West Bank in connection with a rock attack on a Palestinian car that killed a woman, the Israeli domestic intelligence service said on Sunday. The detainees “are suspected of grave terrorist offenses including murder”, the Shin Bet service said in[…]
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