# Zimbabwean businessman and former chairperson and director of Moriel Infrastructure Group, Lawrence Mudzinganyama, has been granted 15-thousand-rand bail by the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Gauteng. He faces ten charges, including intimidation, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, crimen injuria and fraud linked to an incident at a Sandton restaurant in Johannesburg. He […]
# Die regering het bevestig dat 53 gesinne vandag na Angola reis as deel van Suid-Afrika se afvaardiging vir die Angolese projek vir die repatriëring van bannelinge. Die program, wat deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Departement van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur gelei word, het ten doel om die oorskot van sowat vyfduisend bevrydingshelde wat tussen 1976 en […]
An Australian couple is extremely grateful after being rescued when a sperm whale collided with their yacht off New Zealand. Jeremy and Jemma Cooper were sailing with two other crew members about 250 nautical miles north of Norfolk Island when the yacht began sinking. The four sailors spent 17 hours in a life raft before […]
# Zimbabwean business tycoon Wicknell Chivayo and his wife have been killed in a helicopter crash near Marondera, east of Harare. Six people were on board and there were no survivors. Chivayo was known for his lavish lifestyle, close ties to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and African leaders, and lucrative government contracts that attracted scrutiny. His […]
# The rand has crashed through 16-rand-60-cents to the dollar, hitting its weakest level in almost two months. The dollar is strengthening as US Treasury yields rise, while higher oil prices and expectations of US rate hikes add pressure. The rand faces a fuel-price shock, with petrol and diesel expected to rise by about 3-rand […]
# US president Donald Trump has announced plans for South Korea to invest 3.3-trillion-rand in American projects, including eight nuclear reactors and a gas-fired power plant in Texas. Seoul says a proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska is not yet guaranteed and the project must first pass commercial and legal reviews. The wider investment […]
# Die Europese Unie se Gesondheids- en Voedselveiligheidsdienste het die Namibiese regering geprys vir sy vinnige, deursigtige en doelgerigte optrede ná die onlangse uitbreking van bek-en-klouseer. Die regering het verlede week beheermaatreëls ingestel, insluitend die opskorting van in- en uitvoere van gesplete hoefdiere. Die EU se ambassadeur in Namibië, Ana Beatriz Martins, sê die uitbreking […]
# Bangladesh is warning that its dengue outbreak could worsen after September became the deadliest month for the disease this year. At least 148 people died from dengue last month, taking the year’s death toll to 245, with nearly 80-thousand patients admitted to hospital. Experts say recent rainfall and changing weather patterns could prolong transmission […]
# The government has confirmed that 53 affected families will travel to Angola today as part of South Africa’s delegation for the Angola Exile Repatriation Project. Spearheaded by the SA Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, the programme aims to trace, exhume and repatriate the remains of an estimated five-thousand liberation heroes who died in […]
