Thu 01 September 2022: The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has published a revised South African Tentative List for consideration and inscription on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. South Africa’s Tentative Listing updating and revision process was last undertaken in 2015. Since then, the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has reinforced government’s stance that corruption will not be tolerated in all spheres of the public sector. This after the arrest and court appearance of high ranking Transnet executives, Brian Molefe and Anoj Singh, together with two other people. The four appeared in the Palm Ridge […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Less than a week after fighting tore apart a four-month-old ceasefire, an air attack struck the neighborhood near a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region late on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Ayder General Hospital’s CEO, Kibrom Gebreselassie, posted on Twitter that Mekelle General Hospital’s neighborhood had been struck. It […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Government has condemned the actions of citizens who have been preventing people from other countries accessing healthcare services at Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. “These actions by a few are infringing on basic human rights. They go against the tenets of hard fought democracy,” government said in a statement. In South […]
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Tue 30 August 2022: As the country deals with the challenge of illegal migration, President Cyril Ramaphosa has reminded South Africans that the country is a democracy founded on the rule of law. President Ramaphosa said that acts of lawlessness, intimidation or humiliation directed at foreign nationals, documented or undocumented, cannot be tolerated. He said […]
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Tue 30 August 2022: Statistics have shown that about 1.4 million incidents of housebreaking, affecting 983 000 households ,have occurred in South Africa during the 2021/22 financial year. This is according to the Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey (GPSJS) 2021/22 Victims of Crime Report released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Tuesday. The […]
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M0n 29 August 2022: The Department of Employment and Labour has called on domestic workers, who continue to be paid below the national minimum wage (NMW), to report such violations to the department. The department’s Deputy Director: Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations, Caroline Kwetepane, said three years since the introduction of the NMW, some employers are […]
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Customs officials seized crystal meth weighing 785kg with a street value of R236-million at the OR Tambo International Airport. Picture: Supplied/Sars M0n 29 August 2022: Customs officers at the weekend pounced on a 785 kg crystal meth consignment valued at R236 million at the OR Tambo International Airport, said the South African Revenue Service (SARS). […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: Japan will use its Security Council position to lobby for an African seat at the United Nations. “Japan reiterates its determination to redress the historical injustice against Africa of not being represented through a permanent membership on the Security Council,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the Tokyo International Conference on African […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: Head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) Ahmed Raissouni resigned on Sunday amid uproar over his recent remarks on the disputed Western Sahara region, Anadolu reports. Raissouni sparked controversy earlier this month when he said Mauritania should be part of Morocco. “I previously mentioned that even Mauritania’s existence is a mistake,” […]
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