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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Fri 06 December 2024: South African authorities said Friday they will deport 71-year-old Janusz Walus, a white supremacist who has served three decades in prison for the 1993 killing of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani. Walus, a Polish immigrant who acquired South African citizenship, gunned down Hani outside his home in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg in […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called on locals to refrain from registering spaza shops for illegal immigrants, which is considered an unlawful activity. “We have realised [there is] a tendency where some of South Africans were seen to try to register, but not for themselves to operate. They are registering for […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, is a military structure founded in 2007 with the entire African continent as, to use the military jargon, its “theatre of operations”. The idea behind establishing the Command is hegemonic in nature and interventional in practice. The Command’s mission statement says AFRICOM “counters transitional threats and malign […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: South African media practitioners have been called to submit their entries to the 2025 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards competition. “To promote regional integration and cooperation (cross-border issues), the awards aim to recognise excellence in journalism in the area of print, photo, television, radio as well as to encourage […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: The Presidency has addressed a misunderstanding regarding President Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks at the SA-Nigeria Bi-National Commission on Tuesday, clarifying changes to the visa application process for Nigerian nationals. South Africa has implemented modernised and streamlined visa application procedures as part of ongoing visa reforms to enhance economic activity, boost tourism and […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: Experts on Wednesday called for bold action against harmful practices and violence against women, and girls in West and Central Africa at the UN summit on women’s rights in Senegal. Violence against women through traditional norms, discrimination, violence extremism, and social media is “alarming” in West and Central Africa, according to […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: At least 79 people died as a result of a mysterious disease in the southwestern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) last month, with the health minister announcing on Tuesday that a team of experts have been dispatched to determine the exact nature of the illness. The situation in […]
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