Mon 01 March 2021: The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) and the Western Cape Agriculture Department, have jointly confirmed an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Western Cape. The outbreak has been reported in the Western Cape for the first time. Two small-holding farms in Mfuleni, North of Khayelitsha, […]
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Mon 01 March 2021: A Russian warship, the Admiral Grigorovich frigate, entered the Sudanese port where Russia plans to set up a naval base, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing a statement from the Russian fleet. It was the first Russian warship to enter Port Sudan, Interfax said citing a statement by the […]
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Mon 01 March 2021: With a fall in new COVID-19 cases, South Africa will move from Level 3 to Level 1 of the Risk Adjusted Strategy tonight. Addressing the nation on developments in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Cabinet had taken this decision earlier today. Under Level […]
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Sun 28 February 2021: The US said Saturday it is gravely concerned about reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, calling for Eritrean and Amhara forces there to withdraw. “We strongly condemn the killings, forced removals and displacements, sexual assaults, and other extremely serious human rights violations and abuses by several […]
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Sat 27 February 2021: Cabinet has expressed concern that the rate at which the South African economy creates jobs remains slower than the rate the country sheds jobs. This comes after figures released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in the Q4 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) revealed that the country’s unemployment rate was at […]
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Sat 27 February 2021: A confidential US government report obtained by The New York Times, Ethiopian officials and allied militiamen are waging a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the war-torn region of northern Ethiopia. where tens of thousands of people have gone missing Written earlier this month, it notes that officials and fighters […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Morocco plans to allow the farming, export and domestic sale of cannabis for medical and industrial use, the government said today, a move it hopes will help impoverished farmers in the Rif mountains amid a growing legal global market for the drug, Reuters reports. Past attempts to legalise cannabis farming in Morocco […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Government is working tirelessly to deal with the danger of fake news in the fight against COVID-19 and the vaccination plan. Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, believes that while social media is beneficial for communicating, it can be easily hijacked to spread false claims about inoculation. “What […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Government will increase the excise duties on alcohol and tobacco products by 8%, the National Treasury said on Wednesday. This comes as the National Treasury took a decision to reverse its earlier announcement of additional tax measures that would have raised R40 billion amid a revenue shortfall. “Taxes on alcohol and […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: The Ministry of Tourism has reported an 80 per cent fall in the number of tourists to Tunisia last year. Only two million people visited the North African country, compared with 9.5 million in 2019. This had a corresponding fall in the revenue from tourism. The sector declined to about 2 […]
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