Wed 11 December 2024: Spaza shop owners and food-handling facilities have until the end of the week to register their businesses for a traders’ permit, in a bid to address the recurring foodborne illnesses that have claimed the lives of people, including children, across the country. Spaza shop owners and vendors have been given […]
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Wed 11 December 2024: An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission uncovered a collection of artifacts at the Taposiris Magna temple complex west of Alexandria, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Sunday. The finds, which include statues, coins, and pottery, shed new light on the history of the site during the late Ptolemaic period, the […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: South Africa has set the agenda for its Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency with the commencement of the first engagement of the more than 130 meetings that will precede the G20 Summit in 2025. The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, officially opened the first G20 Sherpas Meeting in […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: The festive season has started on a bleak note, with the preliminary road statistics showing that in the first six days of this month, 162 fatal crashes and 193 deaths were recorded in the country. “To date, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have the highest number of accidents and fatalities, with a concentration of […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: African Union Special Envoy on the Prevention of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities Adama Dieng on Monday called for urgent actions to combat racism, negative ethnicity, xenophobia, and all forms of intolerance in the region. Speaking at the International Conference on Genocide Prevention in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, Dieng said that […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: At least 90 people have been killed in violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in neighbouring Mozambique. A disputed election result sparked demonstrations in October. The ruling Frelimo party, which has held power since 1975, claimed victory in the 9 October election with 71% of the vote, according to […]
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Mon 09 December 2024: Police have completed the operation to resurface illegal miners at the abandoned South Mine in Sabie, Mpumalanga. The operation commenced last Tuesday and was completed on Friday evening. During the operation, a total of 153 alleged illegal miners were brought to the surface, with three bodies retrieved on Wednesday. No injuries […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: South Africa – President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a significant step to enhance safety on South Africa’s roads and railways by signing the National Road Traffic Amendment Bill and the Rail Safety Bill into law. These laws aim to protect lives, promote accountability, and strengthen regional cooperation across Southern Africa. Strengthening Road […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: The World Health Organization said on Friday it is deploying experts to support health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate an as-yet undiagnosed disease linked to multiple deaths in a remote area of the country. The WHO experts are on their way to Panzi, a locality in the […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: Agriculture Minister, John Steenhuisen, has commended a joint operation to remove products that were incorrectly labelled and sold as honey-based syrup from various stores in Gauteng. The operation conducted by the Directorate: Inspection Services (D: IS) within the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), targeted products marked as […]
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