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Prince Ned Nwoko has returned to Cape Town in South Africa after completing his ‘ending malaria’ campaign to Antarctica. He was accompanied on the expedition by a team of scientists from Russia, India, China, the USA, and the UK. See photos below… READ ALSO: No mercy for traffic law offenders any longer ― LASTMA VANGUARD
Two people on Monday were reportedly dead when their two-seater aircraft crashed at Ekurhuleni, Gauteng Province, said the City’s Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS). DEMS spokesperson, William Ntladi, said the aircraft crashed near Springs Airfield, and that rescuers were called to the scene. “Both patients were found inside the wreckage when paramedics and rescuers
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday said the country’s debt-laden power utility Eskom would not be privatised and pledged to restore it to full capacity. Rolling blackouts were implemented several times last year to prevent the grid collapsing and resumed last weekend despite a government promise not to ration power during the first two
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The head of South Africa’s troubled power utility Eskom resigned Friday after he failed to end outages that have hit growth in the continent’s most industrialised economy. Jabu Mabuza stepped down from his position as board chairman after the company, which generates around 95 per cent of the country’s electricity, defaulted on its promise to not
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A South African military transporter carrying 67 people caught fire on landing Thursday in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma but there were no casualties, the UN said. The C-130 Hercules made by US manufacturer Lockheed was flying from Beni, a city about 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Goma and also in the
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South African photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2017, is back home, his family says. He was working for the charity Gift of the Givers, documenting the effects of the civil war when he was taken. He was captured near the Turkish border by suspected members of the Islamic State group. But
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A South African freelance photojournalist kidnapped in Syria returned home on Friday after almost three years in captivity, his family announced. Shiraaz Mohamed was kidnapped on January 10, 2017, while travelling out of the war-torn country into neighbouring Turkey. He was seized at a hospital run by South Africa-based charity Gift of The Givers in
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The South African cabinet on Tuesday called for a speedy resolution of the electricity problems in the country to ensure energy certainty. The Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu made the plea at a press briefing in Pretoria about the outcome of the Cabinet meeting on Dec. 13. He said the cabinet mandated the Public
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England opted to limit the workload of some of their World Cup winners when they announced the squads on Friday for one-day and T20 series in South Africa in February. Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Mark Wood will all be rested when England play their first ODIs since beating New Zealand at Lord’s
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Before he became a full-time cricketer, South African spin bowler Tabraiz Shamsi wanted to become a professional magician. Now Shamsi has brought his old passion to the cricket field. His extravagant celebrations after taking a wicket have attracted social media interest across the cricket-playing world. The left-arm wrist spinner’s latest trick is to take
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