Month: February 2024
News24 | Still no trace of missing German tourist one year after his disappearance in Cape Town
It's been a year since German tourist Nick Frischke mysteriously disappeared on the Hangberg hiking trail in Hout Bay, Cape Town, where he was attacked and robbed at gunpoint.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died Friday at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia's federal penitentiary service said.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Crime stats: More than 7 700 people murdered in just three months, says Cele
In just three months, more than 7 700 people were murdered across South Africa, Police Minister Bheki Cele says.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘They want to give us half a teaspoon’: Striking UCT staff demand 7.5% salary increase and bonuses
Administrative staff at the University of Cape Town have embarked on strike action, downing tools over unpaid salary increases.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing wife to death in front of toddler in Cape Town
The Western Cape High Court has sentenced Abdul Salam to 25 years imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Miche Samuels, in March 2021. Salam stabbed and killed Samuels in front of their child while they were driving on the M5 highway in Cape Town.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Transnet’s Free State pipeline closure drives up costs for SA’s fuel importers
Importing bulk fuel in Free State has become even more expensive following Transnet's retirement of the Sasolburg to Kroonstad pipeline in December last year.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mcebisi Ndletyana | Death of Buthelezi and the rise of Zuma open the doors for a new phase in KZN
Following the death of Mangosuthu Buthelezi and the changing fortunes of the ANC after Jacob Zuma disowned the party, Mcebisi Ndletyana writes we are on the cusp of witnessing a new, and third phase in KwaZulu-Natal since the country's democratic breakthrough.
Continue ReadingNews24 | SA scoring own goals amid geopolitical tension with its lenders, warns Nedbank’s Mike Brown
Departing Nedbank CEO Mike Brown says some of SA's economic and foreign policies are helping it score own goals that severely harm its economic growth prospects and fiscal situation.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Chasing leather: Proteas women rocked by Aussie onslaught, facing huge defeat in Perth
It was another long day of chasing leather for the Proteas women in Perth as they were bashed to all corners of the WACA on their way to a seemingly inevitable defeat on Friday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Israel accuses SA of trying to ‘manipulate’ the ICJ to ‘protect longtime ally Hamas’
The Israeli government says the International Court of Justice should reject South Africa's "highly peculiar" and "improper" urgent request for intervention in the situation in Rafah.
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