15 February 2021 A dramatic drop in state and donor funding coupled with escalating Covid-19 expenses has left Durban’s The Association for the Aged (Tafta) — which cares for nearly 5,500 pensioners — struggling financially. Its plight has prompted Tafta to appeal ...
15 February 2021 Deputy Chief Justice and state capture commission chair Raymond Zondo said the commission would approach the Constitutional Court to find former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court, and would request a term of imprisonment for him. Zondo ...
15 February 2021 Seven variants of the Coronavirus have been discovered by researchers in the US, in states across the country and it’s not yet clear if the strains are more contagious, but researchers are concerned. Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana ...
15 February 2021 The Ebola virus claimed more than 11,300 lives in West Africa when it swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 2013-2016 outbreak. Now there are concerns of a new outbreak of the virus with news of ...
15 February 2021 UN agencies have warned that about 400,000 children under the age of five are in danger of dying of acute malnutrition in war-torn and impoverished Yemen. They say that half of those in the most vulnerable age bracket, ...
15 February 2021 Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days, despite concerns about the risk of storms and floods lashing the site. Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to ...
15 February 2021 The United Arab Emirates-government has published a picture of Mars taken from the contracted surveillance probe Amal, from some 25,000 km above the planet, has been published by the Arab state’s government. The picture was taken on Wednesday, ...
12 February 2021 President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the State of the Nation Address in Parliament starting his address noting the 31st anniversary of former President Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Here are some of the main highlights from Ramaphosa’s speech: South Africa expects ...
12 February 2021 This week Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service announces that at least 20 Israeli nationals, including individuals in the defense industry, had been detained as part of an investigation into illegal weapons sales to an unspecified Asian country. Security ...
12 February 2021 In Dubai’s RoboCafe, robots have replaced human waiters; now days customers place their orders with German-made robots, who then prepare and deliver it straight to their tables. People are only called upon when there are glitches, or to ...
