# The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has warned the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be the worst ever. More than 800 cases of the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no proven treatment or vaccine, have been reported in the country, 192 of them fatal. Uganda has […]
# The South African Weather Service says a cut-off low-pressure system will bring windy, cooler, and unsettled weather to parts of the country until Saturday. The system is expected to affect the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape, the Free State, North West, and Gauteng. The service urges motorists to be cautious on the roads due […]
# Die Stad Kaapstad het Transnet weer gevra om sy strategieë vinniger uit te voer om doeltreffendheid op die Kaapstadse hawe te verbeter. Dit is tans laaste op die Wêreldbank se aanwyser vir vraghantering. Navorsing deur die Wes-Kaapse regering het bevind ʼn doeltreffender hawe kan sowat ses-miljard-rand se bykomende uitvoere ontsluit en byna 20-duisend werksgeleenthede […]
# Renault in France announced it will produce military drones with defence technology firm Thales, marking the company’s further push into defence manufacturing. The car manufacturer will build Thales’ Toutatis remotely operated armed drones at one of its factories. Production of a thousand units a month will start next year, targeting mainly overseas markets. The […]
# The Malawian government has appealed for financial donations and humanitarian assistance to help repatriate an estimated ten-thousand citizens from South Africa. Malawian nationals have gathered at the Sherwood Hall grounds in Durban, desperate to return home after a wave of anti-immigrant protests plaguing the country. The repatriation programme is being coordinated by Malawi’s Department […]
# The GOOD Party says the Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape’s Public Safety and Engineering Services Departments are now actively seeking budget availability for the next financial year to personally take responsibility for the cleaning of the Berg River. Spokesperson Keagen Gertse says waterways require consistent vegetation rehabilitation and sediment removal to restore its […]
# An Indonesian seafarer is recovering in a Cape Town hospital after being evacuated from a container vessel off the Cape South Coast. National Sea Rescue Institute Hermanus crews and ER24 paramedics responded to reports of a serious medical emergency near Walker Bay. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon says they found the patient in a serious […]
# Rugby: Springbok-afrigter Rassie Erasmus sê die bestuur van spelers was ʼn belangrik faktor in sy besluit om die Leeus se heelagter, Quan Horn, op losskakel te kies vir Saterdag se wedstryd teen die Barbarians in Gqeberha. Dis weens Manie Libbok se werkslading in Japan, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu se besering en Handré Pollard se betrokkenheid in […]
# Cape Town has renewed calls for Transnet to accelerate initiatives to improve efficiencies at the port of Cape Town, which has been ranked last in the latest World Bank container port performance index. Research commissioned by the Western Cape government found a more efficient port could unlock six-billion-rand in additional exports and support 20-thousand […]
