Those behind the theft of millions in foreign currency from the State Security Agency in Pretoria knew exactly what they were doing, the Hawks said on Wednesday. “Whether it’s an inside job or not is a matter that we are also looking into,” spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. It was[…]
Germany has seen no drop in the number of people arriving and seeking asylum despite EU efforts to confront a migration crisis, the deputy interior minister said on Wednesday, blaming a lack of controls at Europe’s borders. More than a million people fleeing the Middle East and Africa arrived in[…]
Iraq offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran to end their dispute triggered by Riyadh’s execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric, saying on Wednesday it could spill over into the rest of the region. Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, speaking in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif,[…]
Islamic State threatened to destroy Saudi Arabian prisons holding radicals after Riyadh’s execution of 47 people including 43 convicted al Qaeda militants. The militant group, which has claimed responsibility for attacks in the kingdom and stepped up operations in neighboring Yemen, singled out the al-Ha’ir and Tarfiya prisons where many[…]
The number of so-called “progressed learners” pushed down the matric pass rate for 2015, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. She was, however, quick to defend the pupils indicating they were not the only reason there was a decrease. Motshekga announced on Tuesday that the national pass[…]
The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate. Gauteng was close on its heels with an 84.2% pass rate. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the results in Midrand on Tuesday night. The Free State was the third-best[…]
Thousands of matrics throughout the country will know their individual results on Wednesday. All results, except those for Western Cape, would go live on the department’s website. Schools in all provinces, except the Western Cape, would open at 08:00 for pupils to fetch results and collect their National Senior Certificate,[…]
North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday, claiming a significant advance in the isolated state’s strike capability and setting off alarm bells in Japan and South Korea. The test, the fourth time North Korea has exploded a nuclear device, was ordered by young leader[…]
The masked militant in an Islamic State video showing the killing of five men accused by the group of being Western spies is believed to be a Londoner known as Sid who once sold inflatable bouncy castles. Siddhartha Dhar, who left Britain for Syria while on police bail after his[…]
The United Nations has launched a fact finding mission into new allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused four underage girls in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). The UN mission in CAR, known as MINUSCA, said in a statement on Tuesday that it was “investigating fresh allegations[…]
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