Fri 09 June 2023: The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said on Thursday that over 13.6 million children are in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian support in Sudan, the highest number ever recorded in the country amid intense fighting, Anadolu Agency reports. The conflict-hit African nation has been engulfed by violence for weeks between the Sudanese Army and […]
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Signwriters rush to replace colonial street names with news ones in April 1964, a few months after Kenya’s independence on December 12, 1963. AFP via Getty Images Fri 09 June 2023: Place names, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: The cholera death toll has now risen to 32 after a woman from Parys, Free State, succumbed to the waterborne disease. The Free State Department of Health on Thursday identified the deceased as a 42-year-old female, who was admitted at Boitumelo Hospital in Kroonstad. “The patient is confirmed to have died […]
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Thu 08 June 2023: Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has extended the validity of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) by a further six months. This after Motsoaledi announced in December 2021 that the ZEP would not be renewed. The six-month extension period starts on 30 June and ends on 31 December 2023. According to Motsoaledi, the […]
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Thu 08 June 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa has via a telephone conversation briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the upcoming African Leaders Peace Mission to Ukraine and Russia. “The two leaders also discussed the Russia-Africa Summit that is scheduled to take place at the end of July in St. Petersburg in the Russian Federation. “President […]
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Wed 07 June 2023: Sudan’s Army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots that are at risk of exploding, residents said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in the eighth week of a […]
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Wed 07 June 2023: Relentless operations by the KwaZulu-Natal police have led to 9 016 arrests for a variety of crimes in May ranging from murder, attempted murder, rape, and robbery to carjacking. Of these arrests, 2 620 suspects were nabbed for contact crimes, 1 055 for murder-related cases, including a farm murder and 122 […]
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Wed 07 June 2023: Scientists have discovered what they claim to be the world’s oldest burial site in South Africa, containing the remains of a small-brained distant ancestor of humans who they believe buried their dead, perhaps forcing a revision of current theories. In the initial findings some years ago, scientists thought that the small-brained […]
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Tue 06 June 2023: Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced on Tuesday that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2023. Data show that the manufacturing and finance industries were major drivers of growth on the supply side of the economy. “The demand side was lifted by exports, […]
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Tue 06 June 2023: State power utility Eskom says it remains committed to rooting out fraud and corruption within the utility. This after a City Press report alleged over the weekend that police are planning to arrest a senior executive at Eskom on allegations that the executive is part of sabotage efforts targeting power stations to cause […]
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