WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s announced intention to halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization is shining a new spotlight on the U.N. agency’s role in combating the coronavirus pandemic and whether it has been too deferential to China, where the virus first erupted. WHO was one of
PARIS – A year ago, Algeria’s stunning popular uprising forced out longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and rocked a power establishment in place since independence. Today the coronavirus pandemic has emptied streets once packed with millions of anti-government protesters, while authorities continue a campaign of intimidation and arrests, critics say. Some predict
HARARE – Human rights groups in Zimbabwe have welcomed a court ruling ordering state security forces not to assault citizens while enforcing the country’s coronavirus lockdown. One of those injured says he wants compensation from the government as his arm and leg were broken, allegedly by security forces. The high
GAUTENG – Two female suspects aged 22 and 37 years old as well as a 47-year-old male suspect were successfully traced and placed under arrest as they face a murder charge. The arrest of the suspects came about following the discovery of a body of a 23-year-old male that was
PORT ELIZABETH – The South African Police Service in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro assisted by the Metro Police, Provincial Traffic, SANDF and the NMB traffic are relentless in their continuing efforts to ensure that the lockdown regulations as stipulated in the Disaster Management Act is strictly adhered to. Various
PARKTOWN – Two unlicensed firearms and ammunition were seized by police in Tshwane as Gauteng police continue with their mission of recovering the firearms that are in the wrong hands in the province. The firearms will be taken for ballistic tests to establish if they have not been used in
POLOKWANE – The South African Police Service in Mphephu outside Makhado have launched a search operation for missing elderly man, Thangavhuelelo Tshikosi Steven (63), from Rabali Village. It is alleged that on 04 April 2020, the missing man left home to attend a family funeral at Matshavhawe village. Since then,
EASTERN CAPE – A 32-year-man was arrested following a robbery of a local Bakery truck at Viedgisville today at about 11:30. It is alleged that the driver and his van crew were on the way to Coffee Bay direction to deliver bread when a white Toyota Tazz drove past them
NORTH WEST – A 41-year-old suspect was arrested on Tuesday by the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation for his alleged role in a cross pavement robbery that took place in Hartbeespoort Dam on 27 July 2019. It is alleged that two security guards were collecting money from a garage in
DURBAN – It is alleged that yesterday at 23:45, an employee was performing his duties at a service station on Chatsworth Main Road in Umhlatuzana when an unknown man pointed him with an object which resembled a firearm. The suspect demanded cash and stole an undisclosed amount of cash before
PORT ELIZABETH – The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga is appalled and shocked by a suspected drive-by shooting which claimed the life of a teenager and injured three other persons in Bethelsdorp last night , 14 April 2020. It is alleged that on Tuesday evening, 14 April 2020 at
KING WILLIAMS TOWN – The Eastern Cape SAPS Management has strongly condemned the looting incidents reported in the Port Elizabeth Northern Areas. A total of 9 arrests have been effected in separate incidents since yesterday morning, 14 April 2020, in connection with the lootings that took place in the Bethesldorp
