While briefing the press on 2022’s first quarter crime statistics, police minister Bheki Cele exaggerated how many police officers had left the force in the past decade. What else did he fudge? Claim Two claims about the size of the South African Police Service. Verdict Two incorrect. Source South African police minister Bheki Cele (August […]
Tag: Southern Africa
UNICEF says it is “deeply concerned” after Zimbabwe’s health ministry confirmed that nearly 700 children have died from the latest outbreak of measles. A vaccine campaign is underway but faces resistance from anti-vaccine religious groups. Zimbabwe’s measles outbreak has claimed the lives of 698 children since it started in April, the southern African country’s health […]
Maputo — The Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Mozambique’s publicly-owned ports and rail company (CFM), Miguel Matabele, has announced the introduction of an express train to South Africa and Eswatini, to facilitate the mobility of people and goods. Matabele made this announcement on Saturday, when the Mozambican Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, was visiting […]
Cape Town — Warnings of Migrant Crisis in South Africa Were Made Years Ago – Zimbabwean Activists According to the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, warnings of a migrant crisis in South Africa were made years ago with the body having raised the issue with the International Relations Department and Embassy in Harare, eNCA reports. The […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the latest employment figures – which show a decline in the unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2021 – are cause for cautious optimism in the recovery of the economy. The President was addressing the nation through his weekly newsletter on Monday morning. The statistics show a decline in unemployment […]
The fire led to the closure of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital for many months and caused huge disruption to the provision of healthcare services in Gauteng. Eighteen months later the hospital is still not fully functional and its future is uncertain. Maverick Citizen has obtained a copy of a SAPS forensic report that shows […]
Gangsters armed with AK-47s chased workers away from train lines in Cape Town earlier this week. The workers say the thugs are depriving them of much-needed work and income after three years of unemployment exacerbated by Covid-19. ‘They shouted at the gate, ‘hoe kom ons in?’ (How do we get in?) The gunmen forced their […]
The city’s failure to play open cards threatens to further erode public trust in a beach monitoring system designed to safeguard public health. Something stinks on the Durban beachfront — and it’s not just the high sewage pollution levels that have led to the repeated closures of several city beaches over the past eight months. […]
The City of Cape Town is offering up to R100,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of anyone involved in attacks against any SAPS member or City of Cape Town employee, or the destruction of any City-owned or related infrastructure in the unrest and violence in Nyanga’s public transport sector. “You […]
Health systems are, at their core, meant to promote, restore or maintain health. Their objective is to improve the length and quality of citizens’ life from the cradle to the grave. Health is therefore a fundamental human right. This was very clear to the different healthcare delivery administrators and practitioners in Zimbabwe for the last […]
Berlin insists on implementing a controversial deal that recognizes the colonial-era genocide in Namibia, according to responses to parliamentary questions by the socialist Left Party seen exclusively by DW. The German government has not said much publicly in recent months about the reconciliation process between Germany and Namibia. Six years ago, both governments entered into […]
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He presided over the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States as well as the dissolution of the union of socialist republics. In the West, he is commonly seen as a towering historical figure who changed […]
The opposition made huge gains in last week’s elections, but now it faces tough choices. The near defeat of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in last week’s general legislative elections has created hope and uncertainty about the country’s future. The MPLA squeaked home with an official 51% of the vote […]
More than two decades ago the South African government put in place a policy designed to redress racial imbalances in the country’s economy. But, as I suggest in a recent paper, the policy – known as broad-based black economic empowerment) – has been hijacked and repurposed by individuals and factions within the ruling African National […]
South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa condemned anti-immigrant protests in the capital, Pretoria, after demonstrators barred non-nationals from accessing a hospital. The trouble was sparked by a video on social media showing a regional health minister berating a Zimbabwean patient at a South African hospital a week ago. “Acts of lawlessness, intimidation and humiliation directed at […]
Pretoria — 1. As previously communicated, the Department of Home Affairs (“DHA”) appointed the Departmental Advisory Committee (“DAC”) led by Dr Cassius Lubisi to assess the visa applications lodged by the affected Zimbabwean nationals. The DHA also appointed an outside legal firm to handle all court challenges relating to the decision not to extend the […]
Angola’s leading opposition party has filed a legal complaint challenging the integrity of last week’s election, which saw the ruling MPLA party win by a narrow majority. “The complaint about the final results was filed with the (national electoral commission) today,” Faustino Mumbika, national secretary of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola […]
Being a midwife is not a career for her, says Sebabatso Tsosane – it’s a calling. She says she was born into this world “to serve other women”. Tsosane’s interest in sexual and reproductive health was sparked when she herself ended up in hospital after being diagnosed with endometriosis. She is a registered midwife. She […]