Tag: South Africa
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Cocaine worth $13m stolen from South African police
Thieves have stolen 541 kilogrammes of cocaine worth around 13 million dollars from the police in South Africa. The drugs were held inside the office of the Hawks special unit in the town of Port Shepstone in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend, the police announced on Tuesday. The thieves entered the building…
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Aisha Buhari Cup: Sports minister urges Super Falcons to keep their heads up in defeat
The Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, on Tuesday urged the Super Falcons to raise their heads up in spite of the 2-4 defeat by the Banyana Banyana of South Africa at the just-concluded Aisha Buhari Cup. Dare stated this when he visited the subdued Randy Waldrum ladies in the dressing room after…
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South Africa defeat Nigeria to win 2021 Aisha Buhari Cup
Bayana Bayana of South Africa defeated Nigeria 4-2 to win 2021 Aisha Buhari Cup in Lagos. The final match was played at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan on Tuesday, TheNewsGuru reports. The South Africans opened scoring on 6 minutes from an own goal by Alozie Michelle. The Bayana Bayana quickly added a second goal from…
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Ex-South Africa President Jacob Zuma granted medical parole
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, jailed for 15 months in July for contempt of court after snubbing graft investigators, was placed on medical
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72 dead in South Africa’s Zuma riots, worst violence in decades
As many as 72 people have died in South Africa, following days of protest over the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. The South African Police Service (SAPS) which gave the figure of casualties late Tuesday also 1,234 people have been arrested . Notably the protests have now turned into rampant looting and riots, to…
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Jacob Zuma: South Africa’s jailed leader loses bid to overturn arrest
Former South African president Jacob Zuma lost a court bid on Friday to overturn his arrest for contempt, days after turning himself in for a 15-month jail term. “The application is dismissed,” the presiding judge said. The constitutional court last week ordered Zuma jailed for refusing to give evidence at an inquiry into corruption during…
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Ex-South African President, Jacob Zuma surrenders, starts serving 15-month-jail term
Former president Jacob Zuma turned himself into prison early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of the country’s highest court, officials said. Prison authorities confirmed that Zuma “has been admitted to start serving a 15 months sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre” in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is the first time…
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Ex-leader Jacob Zuma compares S/African judges to apartheid rulers
South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of…
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Ex South African President, Jacob Zuma, gets date to appeal jail sentence
A South African court on Saturday agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma’s challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing. The constitutional court had on Tuesday given Zuma 15 months in jail for absconding in February from the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Zuma had until the…
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Court sends ex-South African President Zuma to 15 months imprisonment
South Africa’s constitutional court on Tuesday, sentenced former president Jacob Zuma, to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of court after he failed to appear at a corruption inquiry earlier this year. Zuma failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in February, after which the inquiry’s lawyers approached the constitutional…