The UN rights chief warned Wednesday that new US border enforcement plans risk undermining the fundamental foundations of international human rights and refugee law. “The right to seek asylum is a basic human right, regardless of a person’s origin, immigration…
The French government on Wednesday played down the possibility of mass strikes and protests over pension reforms that are due to start next week. All of France’s main trade unions have called for stoppages and mass meetings next Thursday to…
The cost of living crisis is the biggest global risk in the next two years, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday in a survey ahead of the annual Davos meeting of global elites. The WEF report describes the cost of…
Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an outbreak of the Ebola virus that emerged nearly four months ago and killed 55 people. “We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a…
Former world number one Naomi Osaka announced on Wednesday that she is pregnant and will take a break from tennis until 2024. “I know that I have a lot to look forward to in the future, one thing I want…
Hyundai has used the opening day of the Delhi Auto Expo in India to unveil the updated Grand i10 Nios less than three years after its initial launch. The car that provides the basis for the popular Grand i10 in…
It is not news that the youth of South Africa are facing many and complex challenges. Like most young people around the world, they are forced to think about their future on a warming planet that is increasingly prone to…
Plans to move the cash-strapped and embattled power utility, Eskom from the Department of Public Enterprise to Mineral Resources and Energy, is a bad idea, which is likely to increase instability and maladministration in the floundering entity, according to energy…
Tshwane city mayor Randall Williams has insisted that no money is missing following auditor general (AG) Tsakani Maluleke’s findings on the metro’s finances. The leaked 28-page report found irregular expenditure of around R10 billion, and wasteful and wasteful expenditure cut…
A 55-year-old man who posed as a security guard and walked out of a Nedbank branch in Klerksdorp with R3 million in cash has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Police spokesperson Captain Tlangelani Rikhotso said Welcome Marcus was…