# Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa. The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert. […]
# Die DA in Gauteng beskuldig premier Panyaza Lesufi dat hy korrupte amptenare beskerm deur te weier om leefstyloudits van die provinsiale regering se departementshoofde, direkteur-generaals en instellings se uitvoerende hoofde openbaar te maak. Die party sê dieselfde het gebeur toe hy aanvanklik geweier het om 177 forensiese verslae bekend te maak. Die DA beweer […]
# ‘n Verslag deur die Internasionale Raad vir Mynbou en Metale waarsku watertekorte word ‘n reuse-struikelblok vir mynbou en internasionale energie-oordrag. Die studie het bevind 30-persent van mynbou- en metaalgeriewe word in gebiede met water-bekommernisse bedryf, terwyl 96-persent van Suid-Afrika se geriewe aan ernstige droogtegevare blootgestel is. Die verslag sê gesamentlike optrede van regerings, beleggers […]
# A deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia allowing the kingdom to build nuclear reactors using American technology and to enrich uranium has fuelled fears in Israel of the start of an arms race in the Middle East. The agreement still needs US Congressional approval. Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, who is seeking to unseat […]
# Rugby: Scrumhalf Stefan Ungerer will captain the Stormers-23 – formerly Western Province – in their Currie Cup Cape derby against Boland Kavaliers in Wellington on Sunday. There is just one change to the starting line-up. Flyhalf Jean-Luc du Plessis has been ruled out with a knee injury, and is replaced with Dominique Malgas who […]
# Over ten-thousand people were evacuated in southwestern France overnight as a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through two-thousand hectares of land west of Bordeaux. Data shows wildfires have burnt more land in Europe already this year than the annual average in the past two decades, as the world’s fastest-warming continent has endured three back-to-back heatwaves. […]
# The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to two-thousand-536, including one-thousand-and-33 deaths. The country’s Public Health Institute says in its latest report 50 new cases were detected in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu on Monday. This makes it the fastest-spreading outbreak to date. The […]
# Sewe mense is dood in ‘n botsing tussen twee minibustaxi’s en ‘n vragmotor op die N4 in Mpumalanga. Die botsing het omstreeks 4-uur vanoggend plaasgevind. Drie mense in een taxi is onherkenbaar verbrand en vier mense in die tweede taxi het gesterf. Voorlopige verslae dui aan een taxi het ‘n sleepwa verloor voor die […]
# Rugby: Die nuwe afrigter van die Wallabies, Les Kiss, het Harry Wilson as kaptein behou in sy eerste span na hy dié week by Joe Schmidt oorgeneem het. Queensland Reds se senter, Isaac Henry, is die enigste nuweling in die groep vir vroeg volgende maand se twee wegwedstryde teen Japan. Kiss het die veteraan […]
