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The coastguard has insisted it communicated with people on board who “refused any help”, rendering any rescue operation in high seas risky. A year after one of the Mediterranean’s worst migrant shipwrecks killed more than 600 people, lawyers for survivors…
Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert Early in 2017, Pearlie Joubert commandeered her two teenage daughters to fill five-litre containers with water. She had just heard on a Cape Talk news bulletin that Cape Town mayor Patricia de…
Measures that target Russians’ ability to buy and trade foreign currency typically provoke a strong reaction in Moscow. Russia’s main stock exchange halted dollar and euro trades on Thursday after the United States hit Moscow with a new package of…
Fikile Mbalula said the detail was still being concluded ahead of parliament’s sitting on Friday, but would be made public once it had been signed by all of the parties involved. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) The ANC said on Thursday it…
Francis, the first pope to attend a Group of Seven rich nations summit, is expected to speak on artificial intelligence, Gaza and Ukraine. Pope Francis will meet with US President Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and India’s Narendra Modi…
Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia’s president, at the Group of 20 investment summit in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images) When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to…
The Springboks will be without key players for their opening Test against Ireland in Pretoria next month. Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus has confirmed that several Rugby World Cup winners will miss the first Test against Ireland in Pretoria on July…
Rhythm: Kesivan Naidoo and The Lights will perform in Cape Town. Kesivan and band to hit out the lights Kesivan Naidoo, in collaboration with House of Sachane in Cape Town, presents a rare performance by Kesivan and The Lights featuring…
Celumusa Ngwenya drove 158km/h in an 80km zone and overtook on a double battier line, around a bend, leading to the crash. The Ladysmith Regional Court on Thursday sentenced Celumusa Ngwenya, to an effective 10 years imprisonment after he pleaded…