# The trial of a Libyan man accused of helping build the bomb used in the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed just days before it was due to begin. A US judge says newly-discovered evidence means the defence needs more time to prepare. Abu Agila Mas’ud has pleaded not guilty to charges linked to the […]
# The DA calls for a broader investigation into corruption in Emfuleni Municipality after five employees were arrested over allegations of fraud, theft and tampering with essential infrastructure. The DA’s Kingsol Chabalala says police allege the suspects posed as officials to reconnect electricity, then pocketed the fees. He called for full accountability:
# Die Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention en die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie vra dringende verskerping van die gemeenskap-gedrewe Ebola-reaksie in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo. Daar is drie-duisend-973 bevestigde gevalle en een-duisend-801 sterftes in die DRK aangemeld. Meer as tweederdes van hierdie sterftes was in gemeenskappe en nie in behandelingsentrums nie. Africa CDC se direkteur-generaal, […]
# The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There have been three-thousand-973 confirmed cases and one-thousand-801 deaths recorded in the DRC. More than two-thirds of Ebola deaths are happening in the community […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 05 August 2026: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports the Institute for Race Relations says the Expropriation Act rewrites the Constitution’s compensation test. The paper writes the institute says it accepts land reform, but argues that the Expropriation Act may favour reduced compensation. # And the Netwerk24 website: Reports […]
