NAIROBI, KENYA — This week, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a new law that will give a half-million refugees in the country an opportunity to earn a living, instead of depending on the aid agencies that assisted them for three decades.Victor Ode…
The South African Airways (SAA) has announced that it will be removing return daily flights from Maputo, Mozambique, from its schedule at the beginning of December.SAA Interim Executive for Commercial, Simon Newton-Smith, clarified that the decision wa…
While the crime picture remains grim and not ideal, Police Minister Bheki Cele says it is certainly getting better.Contributing to this, he said, is “time planning and deployment of resources, where they are needed most”.The Minister said this on Frida…
A total of 6 163 people were killed in South Africa between July and September 2021, Police Minister Bheki Cele says.The revelation is contained in the 2021/22 quarter two crime statistics released on Friday.With 1 056 more people killed, this represen…
Police Minister Bheki Cele says the rape of 10 000 people in three months in South Africa is a “deeply disturbing disgrace”.This comes as the 2021/22 quarter two crime statistics released on Friday revealed that 9 556 people were raped between July and…
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has flagged an increasing “volatility” in the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA fragments in wastewater samples in recent weeks.The SAMRC’s Wastewater Surveillance Programme operates a wastewater researc…
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has welcomed the announcement that the Teenage Pregnancy Policy will be implemented from January 2022.The policy, which was recently approved by Cabinet, will allow female learners who are pregnant to continue w…
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) Board of Control has placed its Group CEO Zolani Matthews on precautionary suspension to investigate an alleged sensitive matter of security breach and other contractual obligations associated with his …