Wed 13 July 2022: The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has warned job seekers to be careful with their identity numbers following a surge in public complaints regarding bogus employers. The UIF said the bogus employers have reportedly used job seekers’ identity numbers to register them with the fund and claim for the COVID-19 TERS benefit, and […]
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Wed 13 July 2022: A French court on Tuesday sentenced a former Rwandan official to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide in the African country. The Paris Assize Court held Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, the former prefect of Gikongoro province, guilty of acts of genocide and complicity in […]
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Wed 13 July 2022: ransnet’s capital expansion programme has received a boost after the state owned freight and logistics company signed a $1.5 billion five-year senior unsecured term loan facility, led by the Deutsche Bank AG. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said the facility will also be utilised to “refinance existing debt in […]
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Tue 12July 2022: The South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) has announced that 18 of tax branches would not be in operation on Tuesday as its staff embark on a wage strike. In a statement, SARS said: “(We) apologise for any inconvenience caused but due to Industrial Action taking place across SARS, we are experiencing delays […]
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Mon 11 July 2022: Police Minister Bheki Cele says police are hot on the heels of the suspects that mowed down 15 people at a tavern in Soweto on Saturday evening. In the meantime, the South African Police (SAPS) will on Monday deploy the Tactical Response Team and Public Order Police unit. Cele made the […]
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Mon 11 July 2022: The Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess the risk for local transmission of Monkeypox. According to the Cabinet statement on Monday, this is done in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding agreement […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: In a mass shooting that took place in a pub in the Soweto neighborhood of Johannesburg, at least 15 people were killed. Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela said masked men entered the liquor outlet in Nomzamo park in Orlando East. They opened fire on patrons using high-calibre weapons. “We were called in the early […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria issued an apology to 1,551 intending pilgrims on Friday who were missed performing the Hajj due to airline delays to Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reports. Nigerians missed the Hajj for the first time ever. According to a statement made available to Anadolu Agency by the […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: The federal government has declared inmates who escaped from Kuje prison in Abuja wanted. Nearly 70 Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists, were among the almost 1,000 inmates who escaped during a terror attack at a major prison in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a top official said Friday. Police […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), more than 2.93 million Ethiopian children are still out of school due to a combination of violence and drought. According to the current Ethiopia Situation Report, 2.53 million students are absent from school due to violence, while 401,000 […]
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