How a five-year-old boy from Cradock came to be locked in a freezing school classroom for three days earlier this month is under police scrutiny. Police say they have opened an inquiry into the circumstances of an incident in which Masonwabe Mapolisa, a five-year-old boy from Cradock, was locked in a classroom at JA Ncaca […]
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Nairobi/Johannesburg — UNICEF calls for investment in sustainable, resilient systems across the region to protect children and communities from future crises Children in the Horn of Africa are living through an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger, displacement, water scarcity, and insecurity. More than 7 million children under the age of 5 remain malnourished and in […]
‘Unauthorised’ Biography of Herman Mashaba Pulled Off Market Less than a month after author and political analyst Prince Mashele’s book, The Outsider: Unauthorised Biography of Herman Mashaba was published, Jonathan Ball Publishers have decided to remove the book from the shelves, reports News24. This came after after revelations that the ActionSA leader funded the […]
Tempers have reached boiling point in Hammanskraal, located north of Tshwane, as residents blame local government for the tragic deaths of 15 individuals due to a cholera outbreak in the township. Frustrated residents flocked to Jubilee Hospital, where politicians have been arriving in large numbers since the epidemic emerged. While some politicians managed to gain […]
The national electricity grid cannot be stabilised before the end of the year and load shedding will continue into mid-2024. Construction of new temporary chimneys has not yet started at Kusile. They are designed to replace the flue gas duct that was damaged at Unit 1 in October last year. The new set is a […]
Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer pursue a legal application to have the Section 89 panel’s report into his conduct during the Phala Phala incident reviewed and set aside. Magwenya was briefing the media on the President’s diary for the next week and topical issues in the media. The panel […]
Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person” Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has condemned attempts by Nandipha Magudumana to have her arrest in Tanzania last month declared unlawful. Magudumana’s legal team filed an urgent court application on Friday, asking that all orders and warrants against her […]
“This is a clear opportunity for Nigeria given the African Union’s commitment to the creation of an African Common Market through the recently established African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) regime,” Mr Dangote said. The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said Monday that the first refined petroleum products from the 650,000 barrels per day […]
Just minutes after a cease-fire brokered by Washington and Riyadh, Sudan’s warring parties continued to fight each other. Previous truces struck during the past weeks of the conflict have been repeatedly breached. A 7-day cease-fire agreed to by Sudan’s warring factions began late on Monday. According to the AFP news agency, witnesses reported airstrikes and […]
The ruling party in Mauritania has won a landslide victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday The results were not a suprise. The El Insaf ruling party was expected to win in a field of 25 parties in a country with just1.8 million voters. As a result, El […]
Nairobi — The new university funding regime announced by President William Ruto will see the current scenario of cash crisis bedeviling public universities dwindle. The University Fund (UF) which guides the allocation of State cash to public universities has stated that the new funding formula for universities and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) […]
Nairobi — Kenya Bureau Of Standards (KEBS) Managing Director Benard Njiraini and seven others have denied a criminal charge of stealing condemned brown sugar valued at Sh20 million. The accused were arraigned before the Nairobi Milimani Chief Magistrate’s court where they denied the offence and were released on a cash bail of Sh400,000 each plus […]
Nairobi — Members of New Life church and Kilifi international school are now free to access their respective bank accounts after the High Court declined to extend the freeze order. The accounts include those at Kenya commercial bank, equity, cooperatives bank and the Housing Finance Company (HFC). The investigating officer chief inspector Martin Munene told […]
Nairobi — Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday said he had elected to defer his retirement from politics over surging inter-faction rivalry in Jubilee Party. Kenyatta who is required by law to have retired as a leader of political party made the announcement while hosting a beleaguered axis of the former ruling party at Nairobi’s […]
Nairobi — President William Ruto has directed the Ministry of Lands to take over duties of valuation of land from the National Land Commission (NLC). He said the move is meant to bring to an end the unfair and corrupt era of the Commission in land compensation. He said it is improper for NLC to […]
Nairobi — Delegates are streaming to the Ngong Race Course grounds for the Jeremiah Kioni-led Jubilee faction National Delegates Conference (NDC) to be presided over by former President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Conference comes as a faction led by the former President is putting up a spirited campaign to kick out renegade party members. A section […]
Machakos — Kenya Power Eastern Region Manager Mutegi Mbai has decried an upsurge in vandalism of Kenya Power property in Machakos and its environs for the past two months. Mutegi who was speaking to the media after raiding a scrap metal dealer in Athi River Devki area, said that the dealer has been dealing with […]
Nairobi — President William Ruto has defended the proposed 3 percent Housing levy for Kenyans saying it is a collective business of Kenyans. Speaking Sunday during an interdenominational prayer service in Isiolo Boys High school the head of state indicated that Kenya belongs to everyone and each citizen should be involved on issues that concern […]