Politics

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 […]

JOHANNESBURG – Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane says Deputy President Paul Mashatile must personally pay the medical bills for the victims of the assault by members of his VIP unit. Members of Mashatile’s protection unit were caught on video brutally assaulting civilians. Meanwhile, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) says they are in the […]

Lebanon ( SABC NEWS ) A son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been treated in hospital in Lebanon after going on hunger strike two weeks ago in protest at his incarceration without trial since 2015, the Lebanese interior minister said on Thursday. Hannibal Gaddafi has been detained in Lebanon since a prosecutor charged […]

Fifty-nine years ago today, legal apartheid in America came to an abrupt end. President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House: Afterward, ours was a changed nation, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The back of Jim Crow, with its false promise […]

JOHANNESBURG – There were chaotic scenes at Banyana Banyana’s send-off for their second Fifa World Cup as the team boycotted Sunday’s warm-up game against Botswana at Tsakane Stadium in Ekhuruleni. A makeshift South African team -seeming to consist of 13 players — were warming up to come out and play a game delayed from 3pm […]

USA ( NEWS 24 ) Media outlets in the United States have released an audio recording in which former President Donald Trump purportedly boasts about having a classified document during a 2021 meeting. In the nearly two-minute recording, first aired by CNN on monday, Trump admitted he did not declassify it before his departure from […]

Russia ( Africa News ) The failed Wagner Group rebellion in Russia has shown the risk posed by organizing mercenaries in African states that partner with them, the US State Department said on Monday. “The message we’ve delivered to these countries, publicly and privately in the past, is that every time Wagner enters a country, […]