Giorno: 12 Luglio 2023

Eskom confirms stage eight load-shedding ‘a possibility’

Read More An employee lights candles ahead of load-shedding at a restaurant in the Hout Bay district of Cape Town. File photo by Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images Eskom said on Wednesday that moving to stage eight load-shedding was “a possibility”, but was also unlikely.  The embattled power utility announced increased rotational blackouts from stage […]

East and Southern African governments must prioritise human rights ahead of elections

Read More People’s power: Voters wait at a polling station outside the hostels in Umlazi, Durban. Voting remains critical to bring about the change desired. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP Five countries across East and Southern Africa will hold presidential elections this year. In each country, human rights are under threat — including as a result of […]

Police identify 12 suspects for truck torchings, Cele says

Read More Trucks on fire on the N2 on Wednesday morning. (Supplied) Police have identified 12 people linked to the torching of 21 trucks along the country’s national freeways, including the N3, N2 and N4 over the past week, Police Minister Bheki Cele said on Wednesday. He told journalists that the provincial police commissioners of […]

Landmark sentence for West Rand chameleon poacher

Read More Africa alone sees about half a million snakebites that need treatment every year, according to the World Health Organisation. (AFP) For years, Rapule Mokoena brazenly stood at a busy intersection in Tarlton, west of Johannesburg, illegally selling wildlife to passing motorists. Known as “Doctor”, the 26-year-old was notorious for poaching and selling a […]

Teenager denies attempted wounding of teacher at Tewkesbury school

Read More A 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing a maths teacher at a Gloucestershire school has denied attempted wounding with intent but admitted possession of a bladed article. The teenager, who appeared before a district judge in Cheltenham on Wednesday, was remanded in youth detention until another preliminary hearing later this month. Flanked by two […]

Twitter owes ex-employees $500m in severance, lawsuit claims

Read More Twitter allegedly refused to pay at least $500m in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday claims. Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programs as its “head of total rewards” before she was laid off in January, filed […]

US and UK call for more gratitude from Kyiv after Zelenskiy’s Nato complaint

Read More Britain’s defence secretary and the US national security adviser have suggested Ukraine ought to show more gratitude for the help it has received from the west, in response to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s complaints that his country has not been issued a firm timetable or set of conditions for joining Nato. Their unscripted remarks – […]

Sunak won’t meet NHS waiting times pledge if strikes continue, warn health bosses

Read More Rishi Sunak’s pledge to cut NHS waiting times will be impossible to meet if strikes are still disrupting care beyond the summer, health service chiefs have privately warned ministers. The prime minister promised in January that “NHS waiting lists will fall” when he outlined five pledges, reflecting “the people’s priorities”, by which voters […]

Wife of Huw Edwards names him as BBC presenter at centre of allegations

Read More Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter suspended over allegations he paid for explicit images, after a media scandal that has rocked the national broadcaster and left him in hospital. The episode has left one of British television’s most famous faces “suffering from serious mental health issues” and “receiving inpatient hospital […]

House Dem Jayapal grills FBI’s Wray on collecting Americans’ data, warns of ‘difficult’ FISA reauthorization

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday concerning the bureau’s collection of American citizens’ personal data. During the exchange, which took place during Wray’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Jayapal warned that the FBI could face a “very difficult” process to reauthorize the […]