Новости за 12.03.2020

The mother was speaking to News24 after yet another delay in the sentencing proceedings of Luvuyo Gerald Hendrik, who was known to the family at the time of the incident.

A man died and two others were injured in a collision between a bakkie and car on the N1 south, outside Polokwane.

An incident that resulted in an attack on four guards at a substation in City Deep, Johannesburg, has resulted in City Power reviewing its security measures.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he welcomes the steep fall in crude oil prices caused by a tussle between Saudi Arabia and Russia, saying they are "like a tax cut" for American consumers.

Sudan has suspended flights and closed its land border with Egypt, in efforts to prevent the arrival of the new coronavirus pandemic, a government statement says.

At least 13 people have been injured after two passenger trains collided in the Egyptian capital, the health ministry says, triggering a suspension in nationwide rail services.

Senegal has announced five new cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the west African state's total number to ten, and making it the worst affected country in the region.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced schools in France would close from next week and urged people over 70 to stay at home, to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Britain says up to 10 000 people in the UK could be infected with the novel coronavirus, as it announces new measures to slow the spread of the outbreak.

For the third day in a row, just one person struck it lucky and won more than R360 000 in the Daily Lotto jackpot on Thursday.

The courts found that she doesn’t understand the law, she fails to act rationally and ignores evidence. And these findings are compounded by the SARB and Estina judgments. Her position is untenable, and she cannot survive, writes Pieter du Toit.

President Donald Trump does not need testing for coronavirus despite having met with an aide to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who was found afterwards to test positive, the White House says.

A cafe in Tokyo brings together dozens of kindred souls who meet up along with their robotic dogs.

Algeria has registered its first death from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry has announced, as schools were closed for three weeks.

A nurse from George Mukhari Academic Hospital has been arrested by Gauteng police after he was found in possession of three human placentas.

She wields constitutionally protected power to safeguard our democracy. It was not for nothing that the Constitutional Court likened the Public Protector to a biblical David who takes on the powerful Goliaths in public office, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.

Tinder users are changing their location settings to Wuhan, China, to get a lowdown on the coronavirus.

The judicial commission of inquiry into the PIC has found that the public investment body’s transactions with the Sekunjalo Group of companies of Dr Iqbal Survé, disregarded its own policies and standard operating procedures.

Sasol said it may sell assets or stock to ease its financial woes after an oil-price collapse exacerbated a debt burden swelled by a troubled expansion in the US.

Proteas batsman Rassie van der Dussen hopes that they can continue to feed off their form in the away ODI series against India.

Energy expert Chris Yelland of EE Publishers told Fin24 that there was apparently a trip in the so-called tertiary loop section of Koeberg, after marine life apparently clogged an inlet – causing water levels to fall.

The United States has accused Mozambique security forces of unlawful and arbitrary killings in their battle against a shadowy jihadist group in the country's northern region.

US President Donald Trump had one job to do in a primetime address on coronavirus: reassure an anxious nation, a panicking stock market and divided world. Instead, he left many confused and more scared.

Thunderstorms will persist in some provinces on Friday, as temperatures continue to hover in the mid-20s, with warm weather being expected for the weekend, according to the South African Weather Service.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife announced they were self-isolating as she undergoes tests for the coronavirus.