Giorno: 25 Gennaio 2023

Funeral homes ransacked during load-shedding

Read More Funeral homes in smaller towns are being “ransacked” during extended blackouts while criminals are using the shroud of darkness to hijack funeral directors. Elsabé Basilio, the managing director of the National Funeral Directors Association of Southern Africa (NFDA), said that with extended load-shedding, perpetrators vandalise the transformers, which leaves the back-up batteries on […]

Two or three Met police officers to face trial every week, commissioner predicts

Read More The commissioner of the Metropolitan police has predicted that “two to three” officers a week will face trial for crimes such as violence against women and dishonesty, as he said hunting down wrongdoers in the ranks would be long and painful. Mark Rowley was speaking after the scandal of the Met officer David […]

McCarthy announces GOP members appointed to House panel on Biden admin’s ‘weaponization’ of government

Post Content House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced late Tuesday the names of 12 GOP House members who will serve on the select subcommittee to “stop the weaponization” of the federal government. The members who will serve on the committee — announced in a tweet from McCarthy — will be tasked with investigating how the executive […]

Ukraine-Russia war: Germany agrees to send 2 battalions of Leopard 2 tanks after heavy pressure

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz formally announced Wednesday that after weeks of stalling and frustrating negotiations Berlin has agreed to send two battalions of Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine. In a statement the government said it would initially send one company of 14 tanks to Kyiv, though its aim is to send up to 88 […]

Philippine Plane Crash Kills 2, Another Carrying 6 Missing

Read More MANILA, Philippines—A Philippine air force plane crashed Wednesday on a farm northwest of Manila, killing the two people on board, while a search was continuing for a private aircraft carrying six people that went missing the previous day in the mountainous north. The SF-260 plane was on a training flight from Sangley airport […]

Coal-mining communities left in the dust for a greener future

Read More Coal is a booming business for people in or near eMalahleni (Ermelo), the commercial hub of Gert Sibande district municipality in Mpumalanga. Situated about 200km east of Johannesburg, the area is home to Camden coal power station, scheduled to be shut down by 2025. “Coal is the heritage of this province, it is […]

Take part in the Stellenbosch Wine Harvest Parade

Read More South African wine lovers, connoisseurs, collectors and farmers will celebrate the start of wine harvest with the annual harvest parade on Saturday 28 January in Stellenbosch.  The wine regions come alive with festivities celebrating the harvest. Vineyard tours, tastings, grape picking, music and feasts are among the activities. This is a great time […]

Experts warn of security threats brought by load-shedding

Read More The frequency of load-shedding has resulted in an increase in house burglaries during the power cuts, and there are also related security risks to the banking and the cash distribution industry, experts have said. Claims from insurance companies have shown a rise, with burglaries taking place during load-shedding particularly on weekends, Gareth Newham, […]

‘Lost’ photos by Paul McCartney to go on show at National Portrait Gallery

Read More Unseen portraits taken by Paul McCartney in the early 1960s as the Beatles were catapulted to international stardom will go on show at the refurbished National Portrait Gallery in the summer. McCartney thought the photographs, taken between December 1963 and February 1964, had been lost, but he recently rediscovered them. The exhibition, Paul […]

National Archives blows off Republican oversight request for info on Biden classified documents

Post Content The National Archives has ignored a House Oversight Committee’s request for communications relating to the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center think tank, blowing past the deadline for providing the information. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Jan. 10 requested records detailing the National Archives’ interactions with President […]