Heroin worth R50m destined for Gauteng has been seized in what is believed to be one of the biggest drug busts. A member of the WhiteRiver K9 Unit pulled over a suspicious looking Toyota Prado at the Nkomazi Toll Gate on the N4 in Mpumalanga on Sunday. The officer and[…]
The deaths of 20 people in three major crashes in parts of the country at the weekend should be a wake-up call to government to regulate the speed limit. Richard Benson, founder of Cape Town-based road organisation the Road Safety Action Campaign, was reacting to yet another weekend of carnage[…]
Zephany Nurse has slammed the media for reporting on what she has labelled as hurtful “lies”. In only her second public statement, the 18-year-old girl, who was snatched from Groote Schuur Hospital just three days after her birth, said she feels her “skin [has been] ripped off her face” because[…]
In the latest humanitarian disaster to strike refugees trying to get to Europe, at least 18 people are reported to have drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece.The coastguard launched a search-and-rescue mission for other people believed to be missing from the accident. Sunday’s incident came as[…]
Three people have been shot and hostages may have been taken at a factory on the outskirts of Sydney, Australian police said on Monday, although it was not immediately clear what had sparked the incident. A spokeswoman for the New South Wales state police said authorities believed three people had[…]
Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president — and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease — has died. She was 94. The former first lady died Sunday at her home in the Bel-Air section of Los[…]
A truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint south of Baghdad killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 70 on Sunday, medical and security officials said, and Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast. The suicide attack, involving an explosive-laden fuel tanker, is the second deadliest this year after[…]
Prominent Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi, a veteran who formed the Popular Congress Party (PCP), has died in Khartoum at the age of 84. Turabi was reportedly working in his office when he fell down and was taken to the hospital. State-run Omdurman TV says the head of the PCP passed[…]
A group of Jewish Israeli activists has written a letter urging South Africans in general and members of the South African Jewish community in particular to support this year’s #IsraeliApartheidWeek campaign‚ according to the group Boycott‚ Disinvestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) . “Shalom…We are writing to you as Israeli[…]
The United Nations Security Council travelled to northern Mali on Saturday to push for implementation of a fragile peace deal aimed at ending a cycle of internal uprisings and allowing the government to combat the growing threat of Islamist militants. Tuareg rebels demanding autonomy for their northern homeland, the government[…]
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