Day: February 7, 2021

On Saturday 6 February 2021 at approximately 07:45, members of the Grahamstown Highway Patrol stopped a Silver Sedan travelling on the N2 towards the direction of King William’s Town, with three male occupants. The driver immediately got out of his vehicle and came towards the SAPS vehicle, the members instructed him to go back to […]

PARKTOWN – Three suspected blue-light hijackers whose ages range between 30 and 40 are expected to appear in the Tembisa Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 08 February 2021 following their arrests on Friday, 05 February 2021. The trio will face charges of possession of illegal firearm, live ammunition and police uniform while investigations continue towards linking […]

South Africa suspended its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 Sunday after a new study revealed that the AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against a variant of the virus found in the country. The study, conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and not yet peer reviewed, concluded that the British vaccine offered only “limited […]

GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency is warning that thousands of Eritrean refugees in northern Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden Tigray province are in desperate need of aid and protection. The agency is renewing its appeal to the government for access to the refugees. Before the start of Ethiopia’s military offensive in Tigray in early November, the U.N. […]

PRETORIA, South African special investigators said that around $17m in coronavirus funds was siphoned off last year through corruption, fraud, and inflated prices for protective gear supplied to government hospitals and departments. Last year, President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered a probe following revelations that government contracts were awarded to politically connected individuals and companies. In a […]