Month: July 2023

Ghana ( Africa Ghana’s parliament on Tuesday voted to abolish the death penalty, making the country the latest of several African nations that have moved to repeal capital punishment in recent years. No one has been executed in Ghana since 1993, although 176 people were on death row as of last year, according to the […]

South Africa ( SABC NEWS )  A 14-year-old girl has been found raped and killed at Ngqokweni locality in Centane, Eastern Cape. This happened after Amahle Tyityaba went missing on the eighth of this month, and on the 18th, she was found dead in a nearby forest. According to Amahle’s uncle, Mluleki Tyityaba, a man […]

South Africa  ( SABC ) Sisisi Tolashe has been voted as the President of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL). She is currently the Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Lungi Gcabashe is the newly elected Deputy President of the ANCWL. The new Secretary-General of the League is Nokuthula Nqaba, […]

South Africa  ( SABC NEWS ) Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, Russia September 26, 2022. President Cyril Ramaphosa says that Russia has made it clear that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin would be a “declaration of war”. This is revealed in Ramaphosa’s “confidential answering affidavit” […]

Canberra, Australia ( CBS NEWS ) — Authorities are investigating whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign rocket. Police cordoned off the barnacle-encrusted object after it was discovered on a beach in Green Head, about 155 miles […]

SOUTH AFRICA ( NEWS 24 ) Disturbing details on how South African doctor Lauren Dickason, 41, allegedly killed her three children shortly after her husband went on a night out have emerged in a New Zealand court. The court heard that, long before the murders, Dickason searched the internet for ways to kill children. She […]

DURBAN – ( ENCA )  Over a thousand shacks have been destroyed in a fire at Kennedy Road Informal Settlement in Durban. The Gift of the Givers says one person has died during the blaze, that broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning. The humanitarian aid organisation is helping those affected by the fire. Officials […]

WASHINGTON  ( ENCA ) – US government officials are calling for an official probe into the popular energy drink, Prime. US Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer has called on the US Food and Drug Administration says the drink is targeted at children despite its high caffeine content. Prime Energy contains 200 milligrams of caffeine per […]

EASTERN CAPE SA ( NEWS 24 ) Four trucks jack-knifed and a bus veered off slippery roads in the Eastern Cape as snow measuring between 5 and 20cm fell in high-laying areas in province. Traffic authorities closed four mountain passes in the province to traffic on Monday due to dangerous driving conditions. Motorist have been […]

( USA ) CBS News For thousands of years, humans have slaughtered animals for meat.  But Dr. Uma Valeti dreamt of a different way: eating chicken without having to kill a chicken. He figured out how to “grow” meat directly from animal cells. It’s completely different from the meat alternatives Beyond Meat or Impossible, which […]