Giorno: 17 Agosto 2022

Contaminated Isipingo lagoon and other beaches leaves KwaZulu-Natal fishers reeling

Read More (Supplied) Thousands of dead fish popped up in the Isipingo Lagoon, south of Durban, which prompted eThekwini metro to close off the lagoon when it was suspected the water was contaminated with sewage, the result of a faulty pump.  A cleanup operation is underway, as is an investigation into what caused the […]

Opposition pulls plug on DA’s R26bn proposal for private power in Tshwane

Read More The Democratic Alliance’s desperate attempt to move away from Eskom and its power outage issues will be put on hold after Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams was accused of flouting municipal legislation. (Twitter/ @CityofTshwane) The Democratic Alliance’s desperate attempt to move away from Eskom and its power outage issues will be put on […]

Benjamin Mendy: footballer tried to rape woman after shower, jury told

Read More The Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy tried to rape a woman who had gone to his house to meet another footballer in his entourage, a court has heard. She told police the 28-year-old assaulted her after she had a shower in his mansion, tugging at her towel and telling her he wanted to […]

Texas border town mayor says ‘broken’ immigration system can be solved if Dems, GOP cooperate

Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The “broken” immigration system at the border can be solved, but it’ll take bipartisan action, the mayor of a Texas border town told Fox News. “You cannot have one state or a few municipalities deal with the brunt of this immigration,” Rio Grande City Mayor […]

Migrant encounters at southern border exceed 2 million so far in FY 22, as Biden-era crisis continues

Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The number of migrant encounters at the southern border this fiscal year has now exceeded two million, sources tell Fox News — a number that marks a new record, as well as a glaring sign of the enormous and ongoing crisis facing agents, officials and […]

Covid Italia, bollettino del 17 agosto: 36.265 casi e 128 morti

Read More Nelle ultime 24 ore sono 36.265 i nuovi casi Covid in Italia, contro i 8.944 di ieri ma con un numero di tamponi processati molto superiore dopo il post-festivo: sono 228.707 contro i 63.549 di ieri, con un tasso di positività che scesale dal 14,1% al 15,8%.I decessi nelle ultime 24 ore sono […]

How an abandoned mine dump became a crime scene

Read More Environmental watchdog says ‘direct link’ exists between government’s failure to enforce non-compliance against mining company and gang rape incident. Looming like a ghostly white mountain over Krugersdorp and Randfontein on the West Rand, the North Sands dump was at one point reputed to be the highest man-made sand dump in the world, […]

Slow implementation spurs frustration over South Africa’s jobs crisis

Read More Unemployment epidemic: These men, gathered together to wait for the possibility of a piece job, are some of the 34.9% of South Africans who are without work, the highest figure among 82 countries monitored by business news agency Bloomberg. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) The government and other stakeholders must demonstrate that they are moving […]

WATCH: Could new abortion rules in the US affect the world’s biggest state HIV fund?

Read More In June, the United States (US) government took an unprecedented step. The first African head of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, Pepfar, was sworn in.  John Nkengasong, a virologist from Cameroon and the former head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, is now the head of the world’s largest government […]

Church of England pension boss’s shares in Shell ‘shocking’, say campaigners

Read More The chair of the Church of England Pensions Board, which has not divested its ?3.5bn fund from fossil fuels, is a shareholder in Shell, the Guardian can reveal. Clive Mather had a 38-year career at the oil company during which he oversaw a multibillion-dollar tar sands project in Canada. The Church of England […]