Новости за 28.11.2020

Bulls director of rugby Jake White feels the red card given to prop Jacques van Rooyen in the second half of their Currie Cup clash against WP at Newlands was harsh.

Some 40 people reported ‘slaughtered’ in attack on labourers working in rice fields in Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

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A Verulam tavern owner has been stabbed to death in the Cottonlands area, north of Durban, police said on Saturday.

As early as February, with the global pandemic spreading fast, the World Health Organization issued a warning about an "infodemic", a wave of fake news and misinformation about the deadly new disease on social media.

Ethiopian federal forces have taken "full control" of the Tigray region's capital Mekelle, the prime minister and the military's chief of staff said on Saturday evening.

KwaZulu-Natal police are on the hunt for three suspects, who allegedly ambushed a cop, hijacked his police car and fled the scene.

The Lions produced a timely burst to gain a crucial opening Currie Cup victory in Kimberley on Saturday after lighting led to the match being called off early in the second half.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a "mercenary" for the United States and seeking to create chaos, vowing Tehran would avenge the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist.

Three children have died due to an illegal electricity connection in the Jika Joe informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg.

Tshegofatso Mabasa came to Orlando Pirates' rescue on Saturday afternoon as he popped up at the death to net a crucial equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Baroka FC.

A shack covered by plastic in Sudan's Hamdayit refugee centre has become a source of smiles, sighs and tears for Ethiopian refugees, thanks to a hotline set up to trace relatives.

A taxi collision killed three people on Helpmekaar Road, outside Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal.

Xolani Mchunu, 41, was sentenced in the Pietermaritzburg High Court for kidnapping and killing his cousin, Lerato Malembe, 35.

Western Cape MEC for Community Safety Albert Fritz has tested positive for Covid-19.

The ANC has said the "fake and fictional" poster can only be the work of "wedge drivers who derive pleasure from seeing a divided ANC".

As life gets more expensive and culture is modernised, the lobola custom has turned into an overpriced extortionist cultural practice, writes Kgaogelo Sithale.

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has condemned the assassination and called for calm in the region.

The Ethiopian military has seized control of the town of Wikro, 50 km north of the Tigrayan capital, a senior official said on Friday, a day after the government said it was beginning the "final phase" of an offensive in the northern region.

Iran said one of its most prominent nuclear scientists was assassinated Friday in an attack outside Tehran, blaming arch foe Israel and warning of "severe revenge".

A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of his 54-year-old partner in Limpopo.

Buti George Lebitsa, 43, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for murdering his girlfriend after a fight at their Delareyville home.

Simon Swanepoel argues that the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerated adoption of digital technologies has created a now opportunity for young tech entrepreneurs which is ripe for the picking.

We need to be prepared for the “tsunami of technology” that is coming at us with great speed, write Michelle Esau and Shaun Pather.

In this piece we examine the link between the length of time countries across the world have spent in lockdown and the economic damage. Are lockdowns completely to blame for the contraction of GDP around the globe?