German investor confidence fell sharply in August, amid growing concerns about the nation’s economic outlook and following the diesel vehicle scandal that has engulfed the country’s car industry, according to a key indicator released Tuesday. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) said its closely watched monthly indicator for Europe’s biggest economy fell more […]
An Islamic teacher on Indonesia’s Lombok island has been sentenced to two and a half years jail time for blasphemy, a court official said Tuesday. Siti Aisyah was on Monday found guilty of “leading people astray and insulting religion” with her unorthodox teachings on Islam, said Mataram District Court administrator, Zuhairi. Prosecutors, who had […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 23 – Eskom has been given the green light to make future applications for electricity price adjustments against a number of private companies within the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality in relation to the third multi-year price determination (MYPD3) methodology. This comes after the Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by Borbet SA and others […]
CAPE TOWN, August 22 – Brackenfell police have sought the assistance of the public after a 13-year-old Brackenfell girl went missing last Friday. According to a police statement on Tuesday, Anchen Muller was last seen on Friday, 18 August 2017, at her family home in Brackenfell. Anchen was meant to attend a sleepover at a […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 22 – Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo on Tuesday mourned the passing of veteran South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalist Zola Ntutu. Ntutu, 51, was found dead in his apartment in Kenilworth, South of Johannesburg on Sunday. He had been ill for some time. “Ntutu was one of the pre-eminent member of the country’s media fraternity. […]
CAPE TOWN, August 22 – A 24-year-old suspect is expected to appear in a Cape Town court on Wednesday for the attempted murder of a 12-year-old girl. Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut, said the suspect was arrested in Facreton in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The child had been sitting outside her home in […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 22 – A suspected poacher was shot dead by rangers in the Kruger National Park (KNP), the communications and marketing department of the game reserve said on Monday. In a terse statement, the department said KNP rangers were involved In two contacts with suspected poachers at the weekend in the southern part of the […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 22 – An investigation is underway after Moroccan police arrested four suspects in the city of Casablanca after they were allegedly involved in sexually molesting a woman on a bus, according to a video shown on social media. The footage, posted on Sunday, caused outrage online after it emerged showing the young […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 22 – Embattled construction and engineering giant, Group Five, on Tuesday reported a loss of 853 cents in headline earnings per share (HEPS) and fully diluted HEPS for the year ended 30 June 2017 which decreased from a profit of 335 cents per share in 2016. Group Five said the results were significantly impacted by […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 22 – As the devastated survivors of Sierra Leone’s deadly mudslides, which killed more than 500 people last week, attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives they face the possibility of an outbreak of malaria and cholera. The United Nations and the Sierra Leone government are working to prevent any […]