The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has warned the public to take precautions after opening floodgates to relieve pressure on the Vaal Dam. The DWS Hydrological Service said it had opened six floodgates from the Vaal Dam on Wednesday.…
It’s hard to imagine – four small rural towns in South Africa where the electricity network is “excellent”. This achievement has seen the municipality invest an average of around R11 million to upgrade the network every year for 11 years…
The South African Post Office (Sapo) is a tragic, but accurate, metaphor for the country of South Africa. It’s broken. It’s overstaffed. Offer bad service. And continue to spend taxpayers’ money. It was clearly dead. That much is evident in…
Here’s this morning’s news update: An easy-to-read selection of top stories. Keep up to date with it The Warga – More news, Your Way. Daily news update: February 16 ‘Not all bad about apartheid’ – DA MP sparks fury during…
The world is on the brink of World War III – if not in Ukraine between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), it could break out between the United States and China over Taiwan. As it happens, the…
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced her surprise resignation on Wednesday after more than eight years, kicking off a race for a new leader to deliver on the party’s campaign for independence. In a hastily arranged news conference, the leader…
North Korea has unveiled a new stamp featuring leader Kim Jong Un’s daughter, in what experts say is another sign of her rise as heir apparent to the nuclear-armed nation. North Korean state media never mentioned the Kim children for…
A new analysis of unidentified aerial objects flying over Japanese airspace in recent years “strongly” suggests they are Chinese spy balloons, according to Tokyo’s defense ministry. “After further analysis of special balloon-shaped flying objects previously identified in Japan’s airspace, including…
Many major global companies and financial institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation do not have policies to protect forests, increasing the risk of catastrophic nature loss, a report said Wednesday. The report comes just months after countries reached…
The United Nations warned Wednesday that an agreement to restart grain shipments from war-torn Ukraine, which is badly needed to prevent hunger in poor countries, is in “difficult territory.” The highly successful Black Sea Wheat Initiative was brokered by the…