* High crime deterring investment, costing economy * Murder rate ranks as among the world’s worst By Jon Herskovitz PRETORIA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Violent crime in South Africa dipped slightly over the past year but still remained at levels that made the country one of the most dangerous states [...]
Ninety people have died in fires in Cape Town since January, almost double the number from the same period last year, according to a report on Tuesday. Cape Town Fire and Rescue’s Theo Layne told the Cape Argus newspaper that 67 of those deaths were in informal settlements and 23 in formal housing. Last month [...]
According to BBCLATESTNEWS Cricketer Graeme Smith has exchange wedding with his Irish sweetheart singer Morgan Deane. The couple was joined by family and friends for an intimate wedding ceremony at a church in Cape Town. Among the guests were Gary Kirsten, Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis.
According to our Latest News Netwok: His spokesman Colonel Vishnu Naidoo said that when he was told of Mdutyana’s murder, Cele’s reaction was: “When will this stop?” Mdutyana was shot and killed at the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Reiger Park on Wednesday morning while he and a constable were on patrol in the [...]
The UN World Food Program is set to start flying food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, in a crisis intervention to prevent refugees starving to death along what an official calls the “roads of death” An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia – about a third of the population – are on the brink of [...]
ROME: An Italian tanker carrying a cargo of diesel fuel has been seized by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, the Italian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The ship, the RBD Anema e Core with a crew of 23 on board, was taken in the early hours of Sunday when a [...]
The UN General Assembly has admitted South Sudan as its 193rd member. South Sudan is the first country to join the UN body since Montenegro in 2006, and the day was described by assembly president Joseph Deiss as a “historic and joyous moment”. “Welcome, welcome South Sudan to the community of nations,” said UN Secretary [...]
South Africans are celebrating former President Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday. His foundation urged people to do 67 minutes of voluntary work on the day – to represent the 67 years he devoted to South Africa’s political struggle. The anti-apartheid icon spent the day with family in his home village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape, [...]
Jailed for 27 years, president of South Africa for five and sought-after elder statesman until 2004 when he announced his retirement, he had long been a distant figure in their lives. While everyone from Prince Charles to Baby Spice and the Pope was photographed at his side, his children and grandchildren [...]
The ANC has welcomed the renaming of one of Cape Town’s main highways, the Eastern Boulevard. According to BBC LATEST NEWS On Friday morning, it was officially renamed the Nelson Mandela Boulevard. ANC councillor Tony Ehrenreich said it is only fitting that the former president is honoured for what he has done for the country. [...]
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