Mon 14 October 2024: The department of transport should aim to reduce the carnage on the roads before implementing digital licences. That is according to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse’s (OUTA) Adv. Stefanie Fick. In September, the department announced France-based IDEMIA would produce new smart driver’s licence cards. One of the features was the ability […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich made headlines by breaking the women’s marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon, finishing in 2:09:56. She is the first woman to complete a marathon in under 2 hours and 10 minutes, surpassing the previous record by nearly two minutes. Chepngetich ditched the competition by the halfway mark […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: The United Nations children’s agency says one in eight girls and young women across the world have endured rape and sexual violence, with the highest number of victims recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. UNICEF published its first-ever global estimate on sexual violence against children, revealing that 79 million girls – one in […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) officially came into force on Sunday despite continued rejections by Egypt and Sudan, according to the Ethiopian prime minister, Anadolu reports. The agreement establishes the Nile River Basin Commission (NRBC), an institutional body tasked with promoting and coordinating cooperation among the Basin states on matters of […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The South African Department of Health on Thursday called on all citizens to adopt healthy eating habits and active lifestyles to improve overall well-being. Deputy Minister of Health Joe Phaahla made the remark when attending the National Nutrition Week commemorative event in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, on […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The death toll from Africa’s ongoing mpox outbreak has risen to 979, with a total of 38,300 cases, including 7,339 confirmed ones, since the beginning of 2024, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). During an online media briefing Thursday evening, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: The South African Revenue Service (SARS), the country’s tax authority, has issued a stern warning on Wednesday to taxpayers who hold digital currencies, urging them to declare crypto assets on tax returns. According to the SARS, more than 5.8 million South Africans hold crypto assets, yet many have not declared them […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: “Your hair feels like pubic hair.” That was one of the first insults that someone hurled at my hair. She was a junior at my school. She would touch my hair and repeat this sentence to all present. I had to threaten her with violence to get her to stop touching […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Kenya’s Ministry of Health has said that the country is on high alert following notification of an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Rwanda amid fears of cross-border transmissions. Cabinet Secretary for Health Deborah Barasa said that Kenya shares strong air and road connections with Rwanda, with daily flights […]
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Thu 10 October 2024: An energy expert says South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, can avoid exorbitant tariff hikes if it prioritises cost-cutting measures. This is one way to ensure affordability for South Africans, whose pockets are squeezed ever so tightly. Speaking in an interview with Salaamedia on Wednesday, energy expert Chris Yelland, managing director at EE Business […]
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