JOHANNESBURG, June 19 – The department of environmental affair’s Working on Fire programme has appealed to Gauteng land owners to create fire breaks as the winter fire season was now official open. According to the National Veld and Forest Act of 1998 , the winter fire season runs from 1 June each year. WoF spokesperson […]
JOHANNESBURG, June 19 – Two Kenyan lawmakers from the ruling Jubilee Party have dismissed a presidential directive for a lifestyle audit of all public servants, describing it as a political witch hunt targeting one community, the Daily Nation reported on Tuesday. Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei and Belgut MP Nelson Koech warned that the war on corruption was […]
Sello Theletsane JOHANNESBURG- Antoine Griezmann has signed a new five-year contract with Atletico Madrid until 2023 ending weeks of speculations about his future, while fellow France international Thomas Lemar has joined from AS Monaco. Lucas Hernandez has also signed a new deal with the club through the summer of 2024. Griezmann had previously been linked with […]
DURBAN, June 19 – England coach Eddie Jones believes his team are improving week by week as they approach the final Test against South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday. Speaking from the team’s base in Umhlanga, Durban, Jones said: “We were better on the weekend, and we’ll be better this weekend.” England […]
CAPE TOWN, June 18 (ANA) – Four people have been injured in a shooting incident at the Joe Slovo taxi rank in Milnerton in Cape Town on Tuesday morning. Western Cape police confirmed the incident and said unknown persons had opened fire and wounded four people. “Of the four injured, three are taxi owners and […]
JOHANNESBURG, June 19 – South African black youth media company Diprente has won an award for its pitch at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, the department of trade and industry said. The department also lauded Diprente for its commitment to creating jobs for young people under the company’s transformation and skills development program […]
CAPE TOWN, June 18 – The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) has said that the roll-out of a new and much more tolerable drug to fight multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) will save many lives of mostly the poor who are ravaged by poverty-related diseases. Sanco was speaking following the announcement that the new drug‚ bedaquiline‚ would […]
CAPE TOWN, June 18 – The African National Congress (ANC) has on Monday wished former party and State president Thabo Mbeki a happy birthday. “The ANC wishes Comrade Thabo Mbeki a wonderful 76th birthday, filled with health, more wisdom and immense joy,” the party said in a statement. “The African National Congress will eternally appreciate […]
JOHANNESBURG, June 18 – The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday said that Eskom was lying to the public that workers affiliated to the trade union were responsible for sabotaging work being done at the power utility’s power stations across the country. This comes as Eskom last week began implementing load-shedding as the electricity […]
JOHANNESBURG, June 18 – Financial services Liberty Holdings share price fell nearly five percent on Monday midday, as the insurer was still battling to douse the fire caused by a data breach in its IT systems. Liberty said on Sunday that it become aware of the attack when an external party alerted the firm that […]