# ‘n 7,1-sterkte aardbewing het vroeër vandag Japan se suidelike Kumamoto-provinsie getref. Die kragtoevoer na duisende huise is onderbreek, paaie het gebars en sommige mense is vasgekeer en ander vermoedelik dood in ‘n winkelsentrum wat gedeeltelik ineengestort het. Die middelpunt was ongeveer 20-kilometer suid van die grootste stad op die sentrale Kyushu-eiland, Kumamoto, met ‘n […]
# A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture earlier today, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall. The epicentre was about 20 kilometres south of central Kyushu island’s largest city, Kumamoto, with a population of around 700-thousand people. […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse LUR vir Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, vra inwoners om waaksaam te bly nadat die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens sy waarskuwing vir swaar reën na vlak ses verhoog het. Dit is tot môreaand van krag in eThekwini en verskeie ander kusmunisipaliteite. Woordvoerder Senzelwe Mzila sê daar is ‘n groot gevaar vir oorstromings, […]
# KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi has urged residents to stay alert after the South African Weather Service raised its heavy rain warning to level six. The warning, in effect until tomorrow night, covers eThekwini and several other coastal municipalities. The department’s Senzelwe Mzila says there is a high risk of […]
# Die Waternavorsings-kommissie sê Suid-Afrika se nasionale water-aksieplan kan die land se waterkrisis help oplos as dit behoorlik ingestel word. Navorser Stanley Liphadzi sê welslae hang af van belegging in munisipale infrastruktuur, sterker bestuur en verbeterde tegniese vermoë. Hy sê om waterinkomste slegs aan te wend vir instandhouding en opgradering kan dienslewering verbeter en beleggings […]
# The Water Research Commission says South Africa’s National Water Action Plan can help resolve the country’s water crisis if it is properly implemented. Researcher Professor Stanley Liphadzi says success depends on investment in municipal infrastructure, stronger governance, and improved technical capacity. He says ring-fencing water revenue for maintenance and upgrades could improve service delivery […]
# Meer as 160 mense is sedert die sesde Julie in Frankryk aangehou of ondervra oor doelbewuste brandstigting. Sowat 220-duisend mense in Frankryk en meer as 100-duisend in Spanje is ontruim terwyl brandbestryders sukkel om die veldbrande te midde van ‘n hittegolf te beheer. Frankryk se eerste minister, Sébastien Lecornu, sê die brande is hoofsaaklik […]
# More than 160 people have been detained or questioned over deliberately starting fires in France since the sixth of this month. Some 220-thousand people have been evacuated in France and more than 100-thousand in Spain as firefighters battle to contain the wildfires amidst a heatwave. France’s Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, says the fires mostly […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê Afrikalande moet saamstaan om groeiende wêreldwye uitdagings aan te pak en ontwikkeling op die vasteland aan te dryf. Hy het tydens die opening van die sewende Pan-Afrika-parlement in Midrand gesê Afrika het steeds te kampe met die gevolge van konflik, ekonomiese onsekerheid, geopolitieke spanning en klimaatsverandering. Ramaphosa bepleit sterker samewerking […]
