Fri 22 September 2023: Gauteng MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko, has called on the public to be wary of cybercriminals targeting unsuspecting individuals on various social media platforms. “The public must be aware of cybercriminals, who target unsuspecting individuals on various social media platforms with the purpose of causing harm, demanding ransoms and scamming,” […]
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Fri 22 September 2023: South Africans across the country should brace themselves for a four-day period of severe weather as a cut-off low pressure system forms over the west coast, according to the South African Weather Service (Saws). Saws added that the system is predicted to form on Saturday evening and quell by next Tuesday. […]
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Fri 22 September 2023: South Africa faces chicken shortages in the coming months as a bird flu outbreak and persistent electricity cuts ravage the poultry industry, the country’s largest producer Astral Foods says. In a trading update, Astral said on Thursday that it expected to report a headline loss of 18.02 rand to 18.08 rand […]
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Family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda’s capital. The resting place of the more than 800,000 people killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide was among sites in three continents added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list as the United Nations cultural body […]
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Whistleblower Athol Williams, a former partner at Bain SA, testifies at the State Capture Commission in 2021. Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images Thu 21 September 2023: Whistleblowing is an important tool in fighting corruption. In South Africa, the commission of inquiry into state capture recommended that the government should provide financial rewards for whistleblowers who report […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: Netflix’s recently released film Jagun Jagun (The Warrior) is set in pre-colonial Nigeria and follows the story of a feared warlord named Ogunjimi. While playing out in the past, it is steeped in contemporary universal cultural, political and socio-economic realities. The first 15 minutes of the movie establishes that the story is centred […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: More than 5.25 million people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, according to the United Nations, Anadolu Agency reports. Over 5.25 M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan since April when the conflict flared up said UN OCHA […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on partners from wealthy countries to meet the climate financial commitments they made to tackle global warming in developing countries. “We call on our partners from wealthier countries to meet the financial commitments they have made. It is a great concern that these wealthier countries have […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: A series of powerful tidal surges battered coastal areas in South Africa’s Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces over the weekend of 16 September. One person died; cars, homes and businesses were damaged. The Conversation Africa asked Jasper Knight, a geoscientist who researches coastal processes, to explain what happened. What drove the flooding? […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: United Nations agencies yesterday warned that disease outbreaks could bring “a second devastating crisis” to Libya after a huge flash flood swept the coastal city of Derna, in the east of the country, killing more than 12,000 people, while thousands are still missing. The UN agencies warned that “traumatised residents, 30,000 […]
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