Mon 02 August 2021: The Gauteng province and the Muslim Association of South Africa have teamed up to set-up a drive-thru vaccination site in Johannesburg. The site is situated at the Houghton Mosque and has seen over 700 vaccinations administered a day with a minimal amount of available volunteers. The site only opened this week […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), in partnership with the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) and the National Department of Health, is calling on all journalists to get their COVID-19 vaccination. The call follows the Health Ministry’s announcement on Friday that media practitioners can get inoculated at their nearest […]
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Sun 01 August 2021: At least 249 rhinos were killed the first six months of this year in South Africa, the environment minister said Saturday, partly pushed by the easing of lockdown curbs that increased movement of poachers. South Africa is home to nearly 80 percent of the world’s rhinos but their horns are prized […]
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Sat 31 July 2021: A Tunisian judicial source has revealed that four people affiliated with the Ennahda Movement were released on Friday after being summoned by an examining magistrate on charges of “attempting to carry out acts of violence in front of Parliament” on Monday and Tuesday. A source at the Court of First Instance […]
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Fri 30 July 2021: KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster, the provincial government announced. The move is due to the magnitude of the damage caused by the recent civil unrest. The resolution was taken during a Provincial Executive Council meeting held and chaired by Premier on Sihle Zikalala on Thursday, following deliberations on […]
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Fri 30 July 2021: Tunisian society is still in shock after President Kais Saied’s decision to sack the prime minister and freeze parliament. Few expected the elected president to use democratic mechanisms to reverse the democratic path that brought him to office. Particularly not in the country that had previously been hailed as the success story of […]
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Fri 30 July 2021: South African Tatjana Schoenmaker smashed the long-standing women’s 200m breaststroke world record on Friday to win the Olympic gold medal. The 24-year-old timed 2min 18.95sec to better the 2:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013. America’s Lilly King was second in 2:19.92 with her team-mate and training partner Annie […]
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Thu 29 July 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured citizens that the country is not going to run short of COVID-19 vaccines. “We now have a much more confirmed good supply of vaccines. We bringing in quite a lot of innovation in the vaccination process, and one of the innovations in drive through vaccinations where […]
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Thu 29 July 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the employment of over 1 000 members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to support Mozambique. The Presiding Officers, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) Chairperson Amos Masondo, received a correspondence from the President informing them that he has authorised […]
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Thu 29 July 2021: On Wednesday, the Tunisian presidency sacked the head of the national television channel after two guests were briefly barred from entering the studios to participate in a show. This decision repotedly came after a journalism union representative and a human rights activist were blocked from entering the television office, despite being invited to a program. “The president of the Republic of Tunisia, Kais Saied, issued a decree on removing Mohamed al-Dahach from the position of General Director […]
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