Umm Muhammed Umar Albany Bread says South Africans, on both the upper and lower end of the income scale, are eating...
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Beetles Infecting & Killing SA Trees Could Cost Municipalities R275-Billion
By Umamah Bakharia New research shows that the infestation of a beetle carrying a fungus that is harmful to urban...
Who Allegedly Influenced The Gupta’s Billion Rand Theft?
By Umamah Bakharia Two Gupta lieutenants and a former deputy director-general in the Department of Mineral Resources...
Kenya: Masai Mara National Park Loses Three Lions to Hunters’ Traps
Three lions have been killed in Kenya’s Masai Mara national park. The BBC reports that the lions had become trapped in snares laid by hunters to catch bushmeat. The Mara Predator Conservation Programme, on its Facebook page, said, “It is with tremendous sadness that...
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[LISTEN] Entire Families May be Quarantined Under SA’s new COVID-19 Rules for Foreign Travel
Faizel Patel – 05/10/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) The deputy-editor for Business Insider South Africa says entire families may be quarantined under South Africa’s new COVID-19 level 1 regulations for foreign travel if a member test positive for the virus. Philip de...
Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine
By Annisa Essack 05:10:2020 The Nobel Assembly announced the Nobel Peace Prize for Physiology and Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm today. The prize was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice today for the discovery...
Energy Department Announces Petrol & Diesel Price to Drop from 7 October
Faizel Patel – 04/10/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) The Energy Department has announced that the price of 93 grade octane of petrol will decrease by 23 cents per litre and 95 grade octane by 32 cents per litre from Wednesday, 7 October. The prices of different grades...
Umrah Resumes with Limited Numbers in Haram in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Faizel Patel – 04/10/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) Thousands of pilgrims entered the Haram in Makkah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as authorities partially resumed Umrah amid extensive health precautions after seven months of the COVID-19 hiatus. Only Saudi...
India: Family of Rape Victim ‘Locked Up’ as Police Burn Body
In India, the family of a Dalit (so called 'untouchable') girl who died after she was gang raped, say the authorities had forcefully cremated her body without their consent. The 19-year-old’s body was cremated in the dead of the night, using petrol, which goes against...
Over 100 000 Umrah Permits Issued
The Saudi Gazette reports that a total of 108 041 Umrah permits were issued following the launch of I'tamarna application on September 27. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said that of these, roughly 43 000 permits had been issued to citizens, while the...
ECOWAS Sanctions against Mali to be Lifted
Mali's junta has removed a major obstacle to the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions. by withdrawing their transition leader. Africa News reports that the soldiers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on August 18 have renounced that Colonel Assimi Goïta could...
Armenia “Ready to Engage” in Talks, Azerbaijaan Not
Armenia's foreign ministry is standing “ready to engage" with France, Russia and the United States on halting it’s battle with neighbour, Azerbaijan. The BBC reports that the conflict around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which erupted on Sunday, has seen...