Thu 14 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Western Cape Flood Disaster: 10 dead, nearly 90,000 displaced: Authorities have warned that several river systems in the province are experiencing high flow volumes. The Clanwilliam Dam is 103% full, with all sluices open. Downstream communities are being monitored to ensure public […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: The national jobless rate surged in the first quarter of 2026, with millions of citizens without work. South Africa’s official unemployment rate rose to 32.7 percent during the first three months of 2026. Data from Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) shows a 1.3 percentage point increase from the previous quarter. This rise […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: The UN human rights chief is calling for independent investigations into reports that separate airstrikes by Nigerian and Chadian forces in northern Nigeria killed over 100 civilians. Nigeria’s military has been fighting armed groups in the northwest, which it often labels “terrorists,” and has also been battling an insurgency in the […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: Nearly 50,000 people have been displaced across Sudan’s Blue Nile state since the beginning of 2026 amid ongoing clashes in the region, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the organization said an estimated 49,512 people, or 9,899 families, were displaced across the southeastern state between Jan. […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ ‘The world is watching’: “However, repeated images of violence against foreign nationals risk eroding that equity and creating a perception of hostility, instability and contradiction between the country’s constitutional values and events on the ground.” Brand reputation strategist Solly Moeng said: “While […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ I remain here; I will not resign: The matter stems from a report compiled by an independent panel appointed by the National Assembly in September 2022 to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations relating to the theft at the President’s Phala Phala […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not resign following last week’s Constitutional Court judgment on the Section 89 impeachment process linked to the 2020 theft at his Phala Phala farm. Addressing the nation at the Union Buildings in Tshwane on Monday evening, the President said nothing in the Constitutional Court ruling […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says that very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern parts of the Namakwa District in the Northern Cape and the western interior of the Western Cape, as well as the Chris Hani and Joe Gqabi district municipalities of the Eastern Cape, […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Rising cancer cases are linked to toxic waste left behind during oil exploration in the 1980s. A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ MK Party submits motion of no confidence against Ramaphosa: He said the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the prima facie evidence relating to the robbery on Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in 2020 warrants a full investigation. He said this casts a “very dark” cloud […]
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