# The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure says maximum available resources have been deployed to ensure the safety of the 12 Heads of State and Government expected to attend the 46th Ordinary SADC Summit in Durban on 16 and 17 August. Extensive security preparations are already in place at the Durban International Convention Centre, […]
# The South African government is seeking reimbursements from the governments of Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia for costs incurred in repatriating their nationals. The Border Management Authority has revealed that 89-thousand-936 people had been repatriated through South Africa’s ports of entry by August 7th. The Department of Home Affairs director-general, Tommy Makhode, says the mass […]
# Rugby: The All Blacks thrashed the Sharks 54-0 in wet and cold conditions at Kings Park in Durban, making it back-to-back victories in South Africa following their victory against the Stormers last week. Fehi Fineanganofo scored two of New Zealand’s eight tries, with Jordie Barrett, Damian McKenzie and Caleb Clarke among the try scorers […]
# Newly appointed North West Police Commissioner, Arthur Adams, says the monitoring of licensed mining sites needs to be strengthened. This comes after 14 suspected illegal miners were found dead and several others injured, following a rockfall, at a disused mine shaft in Nkaneng near Rustenburg yesterday. Adams says police will continue to work with the […]
# Parliament has disputed National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams’ claim that laptop problems delayed his responses to the Madlanga Commission. He claimed that he had failed to respond to a formal notice from the commission because his Parliament-issued laptop was faulty. The notice required him to answer questions about the criminal complaints he had opened […]
# The World Health Organisation says it is strengthening its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two-thousand-and-11 people have died with four-thousand-381 confirmed cases of the virus. The epicentre of this outbreak of the Bundibugyo species of Ebola is in the east of the DRC, where insecurity has hampered control […]
# A possible Iranian threat forced US president Donald Trump to be secretly moved after the NATO summit from Air Force One to a military jet via a catering container at Turkey’s Ankara airport last month. According to reports, the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. Without […]
# The DA says it is clear that South Africa’s jobs crisis is worsening, not improving, as economic reform is happening far too slowly to spur growth at the pace required to create jobs. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that the country’s official unemployment rate has increased by 0.9 percentage points from 32.7-percent […]
# Die ikoniese Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Rosary in Manizales, Colombië, het gedeeltelik ingetuimel tydens gister se dodelike aardbewing van 7.4. Die kragtige skudding, met die middelpunt in die Chocó-distrik, het ‘n spits van die byna eeu-oue neo-Gotiese katedraal laat omval. ‘n Groot sy-toring het ook gekraak en teen die sentrale hoofstruktuur oorgehel. […]
