Mon 04 July 2022: Eskom has announced that various stages of load shedding will be implemented throughout the week with generation capacity shortages expected. The power utility has been battling to keep the lights on with violent strikes at its power stations exacerbating the electricity supplier’s troubled circumstances. “As the generation capacity shortages persist over […]
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Sat 02 July 2022: Protests in Sudan resumed for the third day in a row on Saturday, calling for the reversal of last year’s military coup and the restoration of civilian authority. The protests come as the so-called Resistance Committees, which have led the anti-military demonstrations, issued a call for civil disobedience across Sudan to […]
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Sat 02 July 2022: Due to frequent power outages that have affected both homes and businesses nationwide, South Africans are coping in the dark. The country’s state-owned power firm Eskom extended the rolling power cuts this week after years of experience, leaving some citizens and companies without electricity for more than nine hours a day. […]
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Representational image Fri 01 July 2022: An official in northern Nigeria’s Bauchi state said Friday that a court sentenced three men to death by stoning for raping two boys. Bauchi is one of a dozen states in mostly Muslim northern Nigeria where Sharia law coexists with traditional criminal justice. The sentences were handed down by […]
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Fri 01 July 2022: Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says the power utility will be taking action against workers who embarked on an illegal strike over the past week. The strike hit the power utility hard, with up to 90% of workers absent from duty – plunging the country into stage six load shedding as […]
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Thu 30 June 2022: Autopsies have been performed on the 21 teenagers who died in an unexplained incident at an East London pub on Sunday, says the Eastern Cape government. The Eastern Cape government in a statement said samples have been sent to a lab in the Western Cape for investigation. Provincial government spokesperson, Khuselwa […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: Eskom workers are expected back at work this morning following violent industrial strike action, which plunged the country into an electricity supply crunch over the past week. The power utility was forced to implement Stage 6 load shedding on Tuesday when up to 90% of staff could not or did not […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the country’s second case of Monkeypox. The latest case was identified through laboratory testing. In a statement, the NICD said the case involves a 32-year-old male residing in the Western Cape. “He reports no recent travel history. Contact tracing has commenced in […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: Following the deaths of 23 people, the head of the African Union Commission expressed dismay at the “violent and degrading” treatment of African migrants seeking to enter Spain from Morocco and demanded an investigation. On Friday, over 2,000 migrants assaulted the tightly guarded border between the Spanish outpost of Melilla and […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa and other Heads of State/Government from Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and the G7 countries in a group photograph during the G7 Leaders Summit in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria. Tue 28 June 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says food, fertiliser and grain shortages caused by the conflict between Ukraine and Russia must motivate Africa to […]
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