Month: January 2025
News24 | US Army helicopter was warned moments before deadly mid-air crash, audio reveals
Air traffic controllers warned a US Army helicopter it was on course to collide with a passenger jet, reveals audio captured from the deadly accident, which ends in audible gasps from those in the control room.
Continue ReadingNews24 | More than 130 special needs pupils in Mpumalanga denied education since start of academic year
Martha Tshoba was dumbstruck after her son, Masango Ofentse, who is autistic, walked unsupervised for 17km on Monday from KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga to his cousin's house near Moloto Road, outside Pretoria.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Trump may kill SA’s March rate cut – but Reserve Bank is upbeat about growth
Hope for another rate cut in March has been crushed by uncertainty about what US President Donald Trump is plotting.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Diplomatic strain intensifies between South Africa and Rwanda over DRC conflict
President Cyril Ramaphosa will not get into a tit-for-tat with his Rwandan counterpart, President Paul Kagame.
Continue ReadingNews24 | New abnormal begins for east DR Congo’s looted Goma after siege
Strewn with rubble from mortar and artillery fire, the eastern DR Congo city of Goma awoke on Thursday to a new abnormal -- hiding from bandits and counting the dead.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Cape Town parents shut down mobile school, demanding department build a proper building
A group of concerned parents of pupils who attend the Solomon Qatyana Primary School in Strand, Cape Town, took to the streets this week to demand the Western Cape Education Department deliver on its promise they said it made to build a new school before...
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Feared gang leader’ in Inanda, alleged accomplice killed in gun battle with cops
KwaZulu-Natal police boss Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has cautiously welcomed the death of the "feared gang leader of the notorious Inanda West Gang" during a gun battle with officers on Thursday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Trump interest in buying Greenland ‘not a joke’, Rubio says
President Donald Trump's interest in buying Greenland is "not a joke," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview on Thursday, adding that acquiring Greenland was in US national interest and needs to be solved.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Woman arrested with ‘captor’ in Soweto for allegedly faking her own kidnapping
Police arrested a 23-year-old woman with her alleged 'captor' in Soweto after it emerged that she had allegedly staged her own kidnapping.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Man appears for allegedly kidnapping, robbing, raping on-duty Limpopo nurses
A 28-year-old man appeared in Polokwane Magistrate's Court for allegedly raping two on-duty nurses at a Limpopo clinic and terrorising women and children in their homes.
Continue ReadingCopyright 2021, All Rights Reserved