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The Golf 8 GTI “officially” arrived in South Africa on Wednesday but fans of the hatchback will have to wait a while before they can own one.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
We spent most of the month expecting a petrol price decrease. Instead, costs will now increase from midnight - but what has caused this surprise move?
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Alan Paton , in full Alan Stewart Paton (born January 11, 1903, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa—died April 12, 1988, near Durban, Natal), South African writer, best known for his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a passionate tale of racial injustice that brought international attention to the problem of apartheid in South Africa.
MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus was handcuffed outside the Estcourt Correctional services Centre during a live TV interview
The UK-based airline has announced it is scrapping all flights to South Africa until mid-April.
So far, 3 392 people have died in the province.
Unilever said it has reviewed its marketing campaigns and images in its portfolio to ensure it matches its commitment to embracing beauty and promoting diversity
Namibia issued emergency travel documents to the twin daughters of a gay couple who have been battling to take them home following their birth to a surrogate in South Africa, one of the fathers told Reuters.
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
freak during the last century. Saartjie Baartmans
early life is unknown except that she came from a
clan of Quena people, better known in South Africa
by the derogatory term Hottentot, in the Eastern
Cape. Born in the late 18th century, probably in the
1780s, Baartman migrated to the Cape Flats,
where the records show she was living in a small
shack in 1810. In that year she met a ships doctor,
William Dunlop, who persuaded her to travel to
England with promises that she would make a
fortune by exhibiting her body to Europeans. It
appears that two settlers called Hendrik and Johan
Cezar, probably themselves descendants of a
mixed-race marriage between a Quena woman and
a Dutchman, were instrumental in setting up the
deal. Baartman sailed with Dunlop to England,
where she was put on display in a building in
Piccadilly, exciting crowds of working-class
Londoners who viewed her with a mixture of morbid
curiosity and malice. Like all Quena woman, she
had a protruding backside and large genital organs
-- billed by the shows promoters as resembling
the skin that hangs from a turkeys throat.
Contemporary descriptions of her shows at 225
Piccadilly, Bartholomew Fair and Haymarket in
London say Baartman was made to parade naked
along a stage two feet high, along which she was
led by her keeper and exhibited like a wild beast,
being obliged to walk, stand or sit as he ordered.
The exhibitions took place at a time when the anti-
slavery debate was raging in England and
Baartmans plight attracted the attention of a young
Jamaican, Robert Wedderburn, who founded the
African Association to campaign against racism in
England. Under pressure from this group, the
attorney general asked the government to put an
end to the circus, saying Baartman was not a free
participant. A London court, however, found that
Baartman had entered into a contract with Dunlop,
although historian Percival Kirby, who has
discovered records of the womans
You might just lose your favourite Simba chips flavour, forever. Here's what you can do to stop it from happening.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Keshav Maharaj snatched a dramatic hat-trick in a devastating five-wicket haul as West Indies suffered a 158-run crushing, half-hour before tea on the fourth day of the second Test, to slide to a 2-0 series whitewash here yesterday.
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[Lesotho Times] Five politicians namely, 'Matsepo Ramakoae, Lehlohonolo Moramotse, Monyane Moleleki, Mahali Phamotse and former first lady 'Maesaiah Thabane, have been implicated in the illegal trade in alcohol which resulted in the recent expulsion of seven Lesotho diplomats from South Africa.
The Springboks have been pencilled in as participants in the 2020 Rugby Championship tournament, but doubts over their involvement remain.
Kaizer Chiefs attacker Lebogang Manyama didn't travel to Casablanca with the rest of his teammates, and his absence has been explained.
BY SILAS NKALA A BULAWAYO company, Green Afrique Technologies, has ventured into processing green tea using zumbani/umsuzwane to promote local herbal remedies for various respiratory ailments. Zumbani recently emerged as one of the most sought-after remedies in the fight against coronavirus. Green Afrique chief executive Anglistone Sibanda said women in Matobo district, Matabeleland South province, his home area, were harvesting the leaves which the company processes into herbal tea. “We are promoting our own local herbal remedies and nutritional boosters,” Sibanda said. “We are working with local communities, doing research and getting local women in Matobo to gather umsuzwane that has become a hit due to its nutritional and medicinal properties. “As a company, we seek to create incomes for local women who are collecting the leaves and drying them, we package, brand and promote them. We are currently working on supplying orders in the United Kingdom and South Africa where people are using it as a home remedy in the fight against COVID-19.” Sibanda, who is a pastor with the Everlasting Gospel of Christ Church, said the herb was abundant in Matobo Hills. The area is also rich in other herbal remedies still under research to establish their medicinal and nutritional properties. “Plants like sourplum (umthunduluka), ukhalimela (Sicoma Anomala), among many others will soon be professionally processed and promoted to compete with the Chinese herbals, the Swiss and the American products,” Sibanda said. “We believe that Africa is endowed with natural resources and vast indigenous knowledge systems that have been untapped and it is high time we promoted them at a global stage for the benefit of local communities.” Sibanda said people had been stampeding for Chinese herbals, ginseng tea, and now the Swiss Apple seeds STC30 and there is no reason why they could not market umsuzwane. He said people forget that Moringa originated in Binga and became a global discovery, with foreign companies now making a killing through products from the tree. “Our education system trained us for servitude. We do not have entrepreneurship skills to see opportunities and create employment. We are all looking for employment opportunities. It is a common trend in most African countries,” he said. “That is why we get employed by Chinese convicts and any rogue European who comes to Africa and sees opportunities on our land. They start a business using our resources and all we want is to get employed by the fellow. I am fighting against that brainwashing and trying to liberate the African church from colonial white supremacist brainwashing.” Sibanda said people ignored their own herbal remedies preferring foreign ones to the extent that an American took the African aloe (inhlaba) to the US, planted it and built a factory to process it and create Forever Living Products, but Africans are busy doing chain marketing of those products. “Now the Chinese have been all over looking for Sourplum tree (Umthunduluka) and taking GIS co-ordinates, paying elders U
Analysis - Zambians head to the polls on 12 August amid mounting economic challenges, reports of election-related political violence and COVID-19. The country is reeling from colossal debt, corruption, runaway inflation and a weakening currency. Compounding matters is the government's spending indiscipline and tight squeeze on the social development budget, which is concerning in the face of a deadly pandemic.
Ethiopia restores internet to western Oromia after 3-month blackout
\t\tSouth Africa impose jail term for COVID-19 fake news
\t\tFacebook to help combat coronavirus fake news in Nigeria
\t\tKenya arrests coronavirus fake news peddler
\t\tUNESCO bemoans misinformation amid coronavirus pandemic
\t\tAfrican governments battle coronavirus fake news
\t\tJournalists in Uganda demand colleague’s freedom
\t\tMedia freedoms in Somalia
\t\tUS embassy calls out fake news over Nigeria pastor’s visa
\t\tNigeria army arrests journalist, Burundi jails journalists
\t\tEthiopia ombudsman decries info blackout
\t\tAP racist photo, BBC’s Kobe – LeBron mix-up
\t\tInternet outage in Togo
\t\tBeninese radio station fires all employees after suspension
\t\tBurundi arrest journalist over corruption report
\t\tGhana remembers slain anti-corruption investigator
\t\tCameraman assaulted in Nigeria
\t\tEthiopian journalists associational dreams
\t\tJournalists detained in Uganda and Malawi
\t\tWestern Ethiopia internet cut, Sudan bans pro-Bashir press
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Internet access restored to western Oromia in Ethiopia
\tInternet connectivity has been restored to a part of Ethiopia’s Oromia region which has been without connection for about three months.
South Africa enacts fake news regulation
\tThe new regulations for the Disaster Management Act gazetted on Wednesday has stipulated those who spread fake news about the coronavirus can be fined or serve a six month prison sentence.
Credit: BBC Africa LIVE page
Kenya arrest over coronavirus fake news
\tKenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations announced on Sunday the arrest of a 23-year-old accused of peddling coronavirus related fake news.
Combating coronavirus fake news
\t“I would like to applaud the capability of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases for having acted very quickly and swiftly informing the Minister who in turn informed me,” the words of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa.
Governments continue to provide timely information via official channels in order to combat the spread of fake news especially on social media.
[CAJ News] Johannesburg -- CRITICS believe the sentencing of former President Jacob Zuma, for contempt of court, signifies the strength of the rule of law and democracy in South Africa.
Proteas skipper Temba Bavuma has pegged South Africa's loss in the fourth T20I against the West Indies on poor death bowling.
A recent study of Cape Town's tax data reveals that Robben Island has the highest median income in the Mother City.
More and more people have been moving inside and into South Africa for work, as opposed to moving for a job that they had already secured, an official from StatsSA has said.
Guest Column - June is Youth Month in South Africa, built around commemorations of the brave students in Soweto on 16 June 1976 who rose up against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. The same day is also the African Union’s International Day of the African Child. Both these occasions inspire dialogue around issues affecting children and youth. As we reflect on this date and its significance, the following question comes to mind: ‘How have young people in Africa responded to the many cha
