Tag: South Africa
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South Africa actress, Thandeka Mdeliswa shot dead
Acclaimed South African actress, Thandeka Mdeliswa has been shot dead at her family home in Evander, Mpumalanga in South Africa. The actress, popularly known for her role as Khanya in the SABC 1 drama series Ikani, got shot after she got involved in a heated argument her older brother has with two men at…
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MTN rolls out commercial 5G network
MTN has launched its commercial 5G network from it’s birthplace of South Africa, providing access to 100 sites across the country. The launch, which happened officially on Tuesday, is coming on the heels of the government’s allocation of temporary 5G spectrum to the telecoms company. The launch culminated from the allocation of the temporary spectrum…
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Nigeria, US, South Africa citizens can’t enter Europe when airspace lockdown is lifted in July
The citizens of Nigeria, the United States, and South Africa won’t be able to join 54 world countries that will benefit from the reopening of the European Union external borders, which is scheduled beginning of July. According to sources of Euronews, EU officials failed to agree on a common list of the countries that would…
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JUST IN: Buhari mourns death of APC chairman in South Africa
The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC South Africa chapter, Dr Taiye Abe, is dead. He was aged 65. President, Muhammadu Buhari in a statement on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said he received the news of Abe’s death with sadness. Buhari sympathised with the family, friends,…
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2 sons stab fathers to death in South Africa
Two sons are expected to appear in Magistrates’ Courts in South Africa on Monday, 8 June 2020 for separate cases of murder. In Christiana, a town in North West province of South Africa, a 19-year-old suspect was on Friday, 5 June 2020 apprehended for allegedly stabbing his stepfather to death. Police were called to a…
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Serial rapist sentenced to 441 years imprisonment
A serial rapist, named Ndumiso Giyani has been sentenced to 441 years imprisonment for a litany of charges in Kimberley, the capital city of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. Giyani’s crimes included 14 counts of rape, 12 counts of robbery with aggravated circumstances, two counts of attempted robbery with aggravated circumstances and six counts of…
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South Africa opens economy June under key regulations
South Africa will allow most economic sectors including mining and manufacturing to fully resume operations from next month as the country further eases coronavirus lockdown regulations, the government said on Thursday. Africa’s most industrialised economy has been largely shut since a nationwide lockdown began in late March. South Africa has reported 25,937 cases of the…
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South African anti-apartheid activist, Denis Goldberg is dead
Denis Goldberg, a veteran of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement who spent more than two decades in prison for resisting racist rule, has died at the age of 87. A Jewish member of the Communist Party, Goldberg was the only white person to be sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 at the famous Rivonia trials, at…
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COVID-19 Lockdown: Food, liquor stores looted in South Africa [Photo]
A number of food and liquor stores have been looted in South Africa amid a strict national lockdown that was put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Incidents were reported in several locations on the outskirts of Cape Town near the Gugulethu township, where many people lived in poverty even before…