Fri 29 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ Sentenced offender numbers in SA prisons decline over 10 years: Prison overcrowding nationally sits at 58%, with roughly 169 000 inmates occupying spaces meant to hold 107 000 beds. The prison population had grown by roughly 12 000 inmates in the last 12 […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: Education minister says 16 killed, 79 injured at Utumishi Girls School in Gilgil, central Kenya. At least 16 students have been killed when a fire ripped through a dormitory at a girls school in a town in central Kenya, police and a government official say. Education Minister Julius Ogamba said on […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: ‘Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,’ said Tedros, the WHO chief. The World Health Organization chief has warned that the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was dramatically complicating efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak. “Eastern DRC now faces a catastrophic collision of disease […]
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Wed 27 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ New laws for workers in SA: Broadly, the laws aim to regulate the employment of foreign nationals and “enhance job opportunities for South African citizens”. The Bill amends the Employment Services Act 4 of 2014 to address rising unemployment and the high […]
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Monique Bitu Bingi, one of the plaintiffs in the case, holds holds a photo of herself as a young girl before she was forcibly removed from her parents. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP Wed 27 May 2026: The Belgian government lost a final appeal on Friday over a verdict that declared the forced placement of five women into […]
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Tue 26 May 2026: Residents have been reminded of Rand Water’s planned maintenance at its Palmiet and Zuikerbosch systems, which will lead to water supply interruptions between 29 May and 17 July 2026. Rand Water said the maintenance will focus on critical electrical and pumping infrastructure aimed at improving system reliability, operational flexibility and long-term […]
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Tue 26 May 2026: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a delay in detecting cases means responders were now ‘playing catch-up’. The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak and that a delay in detecting cases meant responders are now “playing catch-up”. “We are urgently […]
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Tue 26 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ National shutdown warning for SA: The anti-illegal-immigration group March and March says it will proceed with its planned national shutdown on 30 June. The announcement comes following an urgent meeting held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria this week. The meeting involved ministers […]
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Tue 26 May 2026: The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has refuted claims that it suffered a breach of its systems. This after an alleged hacker group claimed over the weekend that it had breached the revenue service. “SARS continuously monitors its systems for any suspicious activity and has conducted a thorough investigation in response […]
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Mon 25 May 2026: Residents in an eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town at the center of an Ebola outbreak set fire to treatment tents Friday, leaving 13 suspected Ebola patients missing, according to local broadcaster Radio Okapi. In the second such attack in a week, a group of “angry youth” stormed tents built with the support of Doctors […]
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