Thu 04 January 2024: The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) says a decision taken by the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) on 24 November 2023 to place inmate Oscar Pistorius on parole remains valid and is to be enforced. Pistorius’s parole will be effective from 5 January 2024. “… Pistorius shall be admitted into […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa with the delegates of Organisations supporting the Liberation of Palestine at Chief Albert Luthuli House on December 18, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Wed 03 January 2024: The US said that it is “not seeing any acts that constitute genocide” in Gaza, referring to South Africa’s case against Israel in the […]
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Wed 03 January 2024: With just two days into the new year, motorists will breathe a sigh of relief at the pumps on Wednesday as the price of petrol is set to come down by between 62 and 76 cents a litre. According to the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe, 93 (ULP […]
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Wed 03 January 2024: The Ministry of Small Business Development has warned members of the public about a number of fake Facebook accounts, which purport to belong to the Minister of Small Business Development, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams. The ministry has strongly condemned the fraudulent use of the Minister’s name, profile and pictures to create fake accounts, […]
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Tue 02 January 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the BRICS group of major emerging economies is attracting further support from “like-minded countries” sharing its underlying principles as his country assumed the bloc’s chairmanship for 2024. In a statement published by the Kremlin, Putin said these underlying principles are “sovereign equality, respect for […]
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Tue 02 January 2024: The Israeli government spokesman has crticised South Africa’s decision to bring a formal genocide application against Israel to the International Court of Justice last week – which has since been endorsed by the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Eylon Levy reiterated during a short news conference that this is “blood libel” […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: The upcoming BRICS summit in Russia this October is set to undergo a significant transformation as it expands its membership to include five new nations alongside the original founding five – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Saudi Arabia along with the UAE, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia joined Brics on January […]
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A patient at a local hospital in Garissa, one of the many hospitals that Adan visited, to figure out why he was so ill, months after combatting the locust invasion in 2020 [Kang-chun Cheng/Al Jazeera] Mon 01 January 2024: Experts, including former FAO consultants, say multiple errors were made in a UN-coordinated campaign to […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: South Africa said it has approached the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) under the Geneva convention with respect to acts committed by Israel in Gaza. In a statement, South Africa said it is ‘“gravely concerned with the plight of civilians” caught in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip “due to the indiscriminate use of […]
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Thu 28 December 2023: With the full moon, stronger rip currents and possible swells, the City of Cape Town has cautioned beachgoers to exercise extreme caution. The City of Cape Town’s Recreation and Parks Department on Wednesday urged beachgoers to be particularly alert over the coming days. With the arrival of the full moon, […]
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