Tue 13 February 2024: South Africa is to deploy at least 2 900 members of the South African National Defence Force to assist in the fight against illegal armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the deployment in line with fulfilling South Africa’s international obligation towards the Southern […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: Eskom has reduced load shedding to Stages 3 and 4 until further notice. This after the state power utility implemented Stage 5 and 6 load shedding over the past weekend. “Eskom has returned to service five generating units which will allow the emergency reserves to be adequately replenished by Tuesday morning. […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) has cautioned the public against engaging in risky sexual behaviour, as this increases the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV infection. Between April and December 2023, 167 109 males presented at public health facilities across the province […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years. The first group of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) were brought in from the Seychelles in 2018, and have been reproducing […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: At least 700,000 children in Sudan are likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, and tens of thousands could die, the United Nations children’s agency has warned. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the country’s […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has urged consumers in possession of various peanut butter brands manufactured by House of Natural Butters to return them to the point of purchase. Acting Commissioner Thezi Mabuza said the manufacturer informed the Commission that the products from Pick n Pay’s No Name brand, Eden All […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: The Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, California has returned seven royal artifacts to Ghana’s Ashanti king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in a ceremony that marks a significant step towards the repatriation of cultural treasures looted during colonial times. The Thursday handover coincided with the king’s silver jubilee, making it a doubly […]
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Sat 10 February 2024: The international aid group Oxfam warned Thursday of an aggravating hunger crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. “After two years of conflict, erratic rainfall during the planting season is threatening to plunge the Tigray region of Ethiopia into a deeper humanitarian catastrophe,” the group said in a statement. Commenting on the worsening […]
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Sat 10 February 2024: What can indentations in the ground from ages ago tell us about our early ancestors? A lot, it turns out. In January, an international team of scientists from Morocco, France, Germany and Spain published details of a fascinating discovery: a set of well-preserved human footprints believed to be 100,000 years old. […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said that she has been receiving threatening messages since her country filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Speaking to reporters in Cape Town on Thursday evening, Pandor said she had spoken to Police Minister Bheki Cele about the matter. […]
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