Новости за 11.02.2020

While South Africans are celebrating 30 years since Mandela was released from prison, Black Coffee is also reflecting on the moment he was involved in an accident that left his arm paralysed.

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has said power corrupts, and the party needs to ensure a strong position against it.

The department announced the tragedy in the wake of a 16-year-old Grade 10 Ferndale High School pupil who fell to his death from the third floor of the school building.

The UK saw zero growth in the final quarter of 2019 as Brexit uncertainty took a toll.

Three decades after the late Nelson Mandela was released from prison, how has life change for ordinary South Africans?

Telecoms giant MTN expects headline earnings per share for the year ended December 2019 to increase by between 30% and 50%, it said in a trading statement on Tuesday.

A Dutch DJ has apologised to members of the Chinese community in the Netherlands for playing a song on his radio show that blamed them for the coronavirus, sparking outrage and a nationwide petition.

The World Health Organisation says there is a "realistic chance" of stopping a deadly virus originating from China that has killed more than 1 000 people.

Egypt's population has reached 100 million, its statistics agency says, highlighting the threat of overpopulation in a poverty-stricken country where many live in crowded megacities.

The World Health Organisation says it is "encouraged" by an improvement in the Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo but urged caution.

Three people won the Daily Lotto jackpot of R134 838.90 in Tuesday's draw.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says it has tested 61 people for the coronavirus and all have come back negative.

Here are the winning Powerball and Powerball Plus numbers from the Tuesday, February 11 draw.

The South African State Theatre in Pretoria is reportedly probing several of its employees it suspects of defrauding it of more than R20m.

The release of Nelson Mandela 30 years ago was a victory for the people, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

During a visit by Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande to NSFAS' offices in Cape Town, the scheme's administrator, Randall Carolissen, explained what had happened to the almost R1bn the department had announced in March last year to settle the debt of qualifying students.

Lebanon's parliament met on Tuesday for a confidence vote on a new government as protesters clashed outside with security forces who used teargas and water cannon to disperse them.

The World Health Organisation says "Covid-19" would be the new official name for the deadly coronavirus that was first identified in China on December 31.

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir spent a decade flouting international arrest warrants on war crimes charges, travelling overseas in open defiance of the International Criminal Court.

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi is seeking divine intervention following the death of an 11th pupil in the province since the start of the academic year.

People for and against 18-year-old matric pupil Karabo Tau attack each other outside the Bellville Magistrate's Court by throwing bottles and stones and cracking sjamboks at each other.

It will be a fine and warm Wednesday across the country, with scattered thundershowers expected in some provinces from the afternoon, says the South African Weather Service.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country’s biggest labour federation, has said it won’t reach a pact with business on how to resolve the debt crisis at Eskom by the time President Cyril Ramaphosa gives his state-of-the-nation speech on Thursday.

Fifteen ANC councillors in Mpumalanga have been expelled for colluding with some opposition political parties and illegally removing the mayor of the Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality, Thulare Madileng, from office.

Parliament has described open threats of violence or the propogation of "conspiracy theories" as distractions, as the EFF claims the institution intends using police officers to prevent disruptions during President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address.