Wed 06 November 2024: South Africa – Amid recent foodborne illness outbreaks across South Africa, parents and guardians are urged to take extra precautions to protect their children’s health. These outbreaks have resulted in the tragic loss of young lives and numerous hospitalisations in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Eastern Cape, impacting families and […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: An independent investigative report on incidents at Pretoria High School for Girls has recommended that the principal and deputy principal responsible be charged with misconduct. The Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, on Monday released the independent investigative report which probed allegations of a culture of racism at the school and […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: Nigeria’s president has directed that all minors detained during protests against the rising cost of living in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped, Information Minister Mohammed Idris has said. “The president has directed that these children, these minors, be released immediately,” Idris said on Monday. At least 76 […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Salma Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) barged into her home in Sudan’s eastern Al-Jazira state late last month. They accused her of loyalty to the army and its allies, their rivals in an 18-month war. […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen since 29 May 2024 when elections […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Britain’s Prince William landed in Cape Town on Monday for a four-day trip to South Africa centred on his annual Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators. The heir to the British throne will attend a global wildlife summit and meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the trip, which is his first to South Africa since 2010. […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Due to load shedding being suspended for over seven months, Eskom’s diesel savings have reached R13.7 billion year-on-year. In a statement on Friday, Eskom said load shedding has remained suspended for over seven months (219 consecutive days) since 26 March 2024. “Investments in the Generation Recovery Plan have been instrumental in […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: The number of bodies found in a mass grave from 2011 in Libya’s capital Tripoli, has risen to 73, according to local sources, Anadolu reports. A statement by the government’s Search and Identification of Missing Persons Authority has said excavation and search operations are ongoing in the Bir al-Esta area of Tajoura, where […]
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Sat 02 November 2024: Zimbabwe will seek compensation from Britain for the colonial injustices suffered by indigenous Zimbabweans during the 1890-1980 colonial period, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday. Addressing the Zimbabwe National Elders Forum at the State House in Harare, the country’s capital, Mnangagwa announced an initiative to study the impacts of Britain’s colonialism […]
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Sat 02 November 2024: The last two summits of Brics countries have raised questions about the coalition’s identity and purpose. This began to come into focus at the summit hosted by South Africa in 2023, and more acutely at the recent 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia. At both events the alliance undertook to expand its membership. In 2023, the first […]
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