The Western Cape province has made an official request for a deployment of more soldiers to quell the ongoing taxi violence in the province. The soldiers are assisting law enforcement officials to bring stability in the affected routes. At least 24 people have been killed in the past two weeks[…]
The Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 which is expected to meet this weekend says it will advise government to review its current lockdown restrictions because the country has started to see a turnaround in coronavirus infections. The committee says there has been a decline in the number of cases but[…]
A group of state attorneys general in the United States has unveiled a landmark $26bn settlement with major US drug companies accused of fuelling a deadly nationwide opioid epidemic, but some states were cool on the agreement. Under the settlement proposal released on Wednesday, the three largest US drug distributors[…]
India is investigating its first documented human death from bird flu after an 11-year-old boy succumbed to the disease earlier this month, says the health ministry. The boy was admitted to New Delhi’s premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences on July 2. He died on Tuesday after a multiorgan[…]
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) says it is conducting a study on 28 people who have died after receiving either the Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson vaccines in South Africa. According SAHPRA, 28 people died after being vaccinated in South Africa as of the seventh of July.[…]
The Institute of Security Studies says the 1.5 one million rounds of ammunition stolen during last week’s looting in Durban could already be in the hands of criminals. The ammunition was looted from a shipping container at a depot in Prospecton in the south of Durban. Senior Researcher at the[…]
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to keep the repo rate unchanged at 3.5%. The decision will be made public on Thursday afternoon at the conclusion of the committee’s three-day meeting. The committee has previously said it expected inflation to remain contained at 4.2% this year. In[…]
Heavy rain pounded the central Chinese province of Henan on Tuesday, bursting the banks of major rivers, flooding the streets of a dozen cities and trapping subway passengers waist-high in floodwaters. Henan, a populous province double the size of Austria, has been hit by storms since the weekend in an[…]
The head of the World Health Organization told Olympic chiefs “the world is failing” to stop Covid-19 as the pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 sports programme got underway on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an uneven vaccine rollout risked worsening the crisis, but hoped the Olympics could be a “message[…]
Snowfall has been predicted for mountainous regions in the Western Cape from Tuesday night. Another cold spell has settled over Cape Town and its surrounding areas. Forecaster, Khumsa Masizana: “Possibly a level 4 warning for disruptive snowfall within the high lying areas of the Western Cape from this evening into[…]
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