17 August 2022|18 Muharram 1444 The government has been urged to establish a specialist mining police unit to combat and prevent illegal mining. This comes on the backdrop of public outrage at the gang rape of eight women who were shooting a music video ...
17 August 2022 The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced that it had suspended all movement of cattle in the country, due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. According to Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza, the disease has been detected on ...
16 August 2022|17 Muharram 1444 A 14-year-old learner from Tina Falls Primary School in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape is facing a possible arm amputation after she allegedly received a COVID-19 vaccination. Yamkela Seplan got an infection and developed a huge lump ...
16 August 2022|17 Muharram 1444 Ruto, of the United Democratic Alliance, obtained about seven-million votes and defeated Raila Odinga the long-time leader of opposition party Azimio La Umoja who managed to secure over six-million votes. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he has ...
15 August 2022 The trial of alleged July unrest instigator Bonginkosi Khanyile has been postponed to Friday to allow him time to expand his legal team and consult with them. This is after Khanyile’s defence team told the court that they ...
15 August 2022|16 Muharram 1444 A 35-year-old self-styled ‘apostle’ is on Monday expected to appear in the High Court sitting in Mbizana, in the Eastern Cape, on four charges of human trafficking. The people who were allegedly trafficked are expected to take the ...
14 August 2022 A senior ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader in the Musa Dladla region, Sanele Masuku, is among 22 people who appeared briefly in the Durban magistrate’s court on Friday in connection with the riots in July 2021. They were arrested ...
12 August 2022|13 Muharram 1444 Dozens died in anti-government protests in Sierra Leone, police and other sources said on Thursday, sharply raising the death toll from the previous day’s clashes as shocked citizens stayed mostly behind closed doors in the capital ...
11 August 2022|12 Muharram 1444 It’s been a decade since the Marikana massacre in which over 30 mineworkers were killed during running battles with police. On the tenth anniversary, the State insists it’s still committed to settling compensation for victims despite accusations ...
10 August 2022 Rampaging residents looking for suspected illegal miners clashed with the police, pelting them with stones and bottles and accusing them of siding with the zama zamas. Police used pepper spray and fired rubber bullets on Wednesday to prevent the ...
