Turkish security forces have carried out an operation to rescue a prosecutor held captive at an Istanbul courthouse, killing the two hostage-takers. Selami Altiok, the city’s police chief, said in a news conference on Tuesday that the attackers had been shot dead and that prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was critically[…]
Stage two rolling blackouts were scheduled for Wednesday, Eskom said. “Eskom will implement stage two load shedding from 4pm today, which is likely to continue until 10pm this evening,” the power utility said in a statement. “This is due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently[…]
Members of Business Leadership SA were meeting Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria on Friday to make proposals regarding the energy crisis in South Africa. “We will benefit a great deal from the discussion with Business Leadership SA. They have a number of ideas and proposals,” Ramaphosa told reporters before[…]
The payment of about R10.8 million in “incentives” last year to 10 top Eskom officials was challenged by the DA on Tuesday, with the party calling for the executives to pay back the money. The Democratic Alliance also wants Public Enterprises Minister Lynn Brown to explain to parliamentarians why the[…]
Government shares responsibility with Eskom for the power problems gripping the country, Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona said on Thursday. “The government co-owns the problem because some of the factors that led us into the situation have to do with policy,” he told reporters in Johannesburg. This included electricity pricing set[…]
South Africa is in crisis, EFF leader Julius Malema said on Sunday. “It is experiencing a leadership crisis,” he told delegates at the party’s elective conference at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. He referred to unemployment, service delivery, and education. “We are in a crisis because the[…]
There has been a “misinformation campaign” about what constitutes the real crisis in Cosatu aimed at defocusing it, Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini said on Friday. “There has been an attempt to steal Cosatu away from its course… by deliberate misinterpretation or selective implementation of its policies to suit an agenda[…]
President Barack Obama issued a global call to action to fight West Africa’s Ebola epidemic on Tuesday, warning the deadly outbreak was unprecedented and “spiraling out of control,” threatening hundreds of thousands of people. Speaking as he unveiled a major new US initiative which will see 3,000 US military personnel[…]
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will not be stopped unless wealthy nations intervene to contain the virus, the head of a leading a medical charity has said. Joanne Liu, of Doctors Without Borders, said on Tuesday that authorities were “losing the battle”, and that the world had ignored the[…]
Global medical charity Doctors Without Borders has given warning that the Ebola crisis in West Africa is “unprecedented, absolutely out of control”, as states across the world took steps to prevent its spread. Bart Janssens, the charity’s director of operations, warned there was no overarching vision of how to tackle[…]
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