CAPE TOWN — “It was Dec. 2019 when we approached the court,” said attorney Andreas Peens in Koster, a small town in the Kgetlengrivier municipality in the North West Province of South Africa. Peens represents the Kgetlengrivier Concerned Citizens, who at the time were asking the Magistrate’s Court to grant them access to the water […]
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Johan Lotter and his parents moved into numbers 2 and 2A Johann Street in Standerton 15 years ago, planning to spend the rest of their lives there. Located in a cul-de-sac on the banks of the Vaal River, it seemed ideal for Johan, who had taken an early retirement after the family plumbing business down-sized. […]
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Having spent much of his adult life working in the coal mines in Welkom, pensioner Hendrik Tlaudi says he now suffers from a bad back and must take medication on a daily basis. But Tlaudi, who lives in a state-subsidised house with his widowed sister in Winburg, about an hour from the mines, cannot simply […]
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Six African countries including Nigeria and South Africa are set to start manufacturing the mRNA vaccine as a dearth of vaccine access equity follows the COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. According to WHO, mRNA vaccines are molecule vaccines that teach human cells how to make a protein that will […]
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A new variant of the COVID-19 infection has been found in South Africa as scientists in the country said the newly identified variant has a concerning number of mutations. The new variant called C.1.2, according to scientists, has been found in seven other countries in Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Europe but was first identified in […]
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The Intervention Brigade of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) will be reinforced with the arrival of two other Rapid Reaction Forces in the eastern part of the country. The two forces to be deployed will be from Nepal and South Africa, according to UN sources in Kinshasa, […]
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The number of deaths recorded from pro Zuma riots in South Africa have risen to 276. Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, a minister of the South African government disclosed this to the press at a news conference held on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. According to Reuters, the minister said that 234 deaths were linked to the “unrest” in […]
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Pfizer, a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine production, has announced that South Africa will begin the production of its vaccine. Pfizer made the announcement on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Associated Press (AP) reported that the Biovac Institute, a pharmaceutical company in Cape Town, South Africa will be manufacturing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine […]
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A South African criminal gang has modelled itself after Boko Haram, a terrorist group terrorising some parts of the Sahel region—Lake Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. In Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, a former member of the criminal gang said the group had adopted the appellation of Boko Haram to strike fear in people’s hearts, according to […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has made an urgent call for the provision of vaccines to slow down the spread of COVID-19 in Southern Africa. The organisation said healthcare workers have been struggling for vaccines since the new, more contagious strain of COVID-19 was discovered in Southern Africa, calling for a quick provision for […]
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South African 17-year-old Sinoyolo was looking forward to becoming a man this year. His uncle had made arrangements for him to travel to the mountains overlooking the South African city of Port Elizabeth in December for his initiation. Known in the local Xhosa language as “Ukwaluko”, the secretive rite of passage marks a boy’s transition […]
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More than 10,000 people have died from coronavirus in South Africa since the pandemic arrived the country in March, the health ministry said on Saturday. The continent’s most industrialised economy has registered 553,188 infections, more than half of the continental caseload, and the fifth largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world. The South African […]
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