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Atsu was found dead on Saturday under his home in southern Turkey. He had been playing for the Hatayspor club. The winger played 65 times for Ghana’s national team and helped his side reach the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations final. The 31-year-old also played for Premier League sides Everton and Newcastle. Speaking at Kotoka airport in the capital Accra, Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said: “We hoped against hope, every day that passed, we prayed and prayed. But alas, when he was found, he was no more.” Bawumia added the late footballer was much loved and would be sorely missed.…
Flooding and persistently heavy rains have wreaked damage across the nation. The provinces of Mpumalanga, North West, and KwaZulu-Natal have been impacted by the harsh weather. Some of the farmers’ grazing areas, according to Vaal River bank farmers in the Northern Cape, have already flooded. This came when the Vaal Dam’s 12 sluice gates were opened on Saturday by the Water and Sanitation Agency. According to the department, significant rains in a few provinces, particularly Gauteng, forced it to open the gates. Juan Pierre Harmse, a cattle farmer who is impacted, claims that his animals are in danger due to…
A 30-year-old woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her boyfriend in Mogwase outside Rustenburg in North West. Colonel Adele Myburgh, a spokesman for the North West Police, reported that Petunia Keabetswe Molefinyana was stabbed multiple times yesterday. Molefinyana died as a result. It is believed that after visiting the Department of Labour office, she was attacked outside the Mogwase Shopping Complex. Her boyfriend has been detained by police and is scheduled to testify on a charge of murder on Monday at the Mankwe Magistrate’s Court in Mogwase.
“We are still in disbelief. We are unsure of how to accept his passing.” Thato Masikane spoke these comments after discovering her younger brother Tshiamo’s decomposing body hanging in a bush in Rustenburg, North West, three weeks after he vanished. An inquest case has been begun, and police have no suspicion of wrongdoing. The family was in a state of shock following the death of Tshiamo, 17, according to Masikane. “We’re still attempting to make sense of the circumstance. We are unsure of how to interpret his passing and are filled with concerns,” she said. On January 1, Masikane said…
The Madibeng municipality in the North West has designated Ramogodi ward 17 a disaster area after flooding at the weekend destroyed homes and roads. At Ramogodi, a portion of Mmakau village under Kgosi Saki Motsepe, several families were forced to leave their houses as a result of torrential rains that destroyed recently paved roadways and washed away road infrastructure. This week, the neighbourhood was devastated by rain. Distressed locals nevertheless hold the Madibeng municipality responsible for the current state of affairs, despite hoping that the disaster’s declaration would make things better. They said that the municipality used contractors who performed…
The newest album by the late rapper known as AKA, Kiernan Forbes, will still be released, according to the musician’s family, despite his terrible passing. Two unidentified shooters opened fire on AKA and his companion Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane as they were leaving a restaurant in Durban over the weekend. According to a statement posted on the musician’s social media platforms on Thursday, Mass Country will be published on February 24. “Mass Country has taken over as AKA’s whole universe for the past two years. The Supa Mega consistently maintained the energy and suspense surrounding the album release,” reads the the…
The Organization Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) expressed concern that the electricity crises’ state of urgency would be utilized to force through a deal with Karpowership. In the urgent review application it submitted on Thursday to the High Court in Pretoria, Outa voiced these worries. The group demands that the choices made that resulted in the declaration of a catastrophe be reversed. Currently engaged in a legal dispute over licenses given to the Turkish Karpowership, which plans to utilize a power ship to provide electricity to the grid, is Outa and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa). A key…
According to the Department of Social Development, almost 8 million grant applications for the social relief distress grant (SRD) were authorised in January alone. About 13.5 million applications for the SRD had been submitted to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) as of the end of January. Between 7.4 million and 7.8 million of these applicants are accepted each month, according to minister of social development Lindiwe Zulu. With 7.8 million participants and a grant price of R350, this works out to R2.7 billion per month being spent from the national budget to help South Africans who are struggling…
By Nick Said South Africa’s 11th place finish at the recent 2023 Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup was perhaps below the ambitions of the team but should be measured against the realities the sport faces in a country where it is under-funded yet still manages to punch above its weight. The side suffered two narrow pool stage losses to Argentina (0-1) and France (1-2) before a blow-out 2-9 defeat to Australia. That was followed by a 6-3 success against Malaysia and a 2-5 loss to India. All of those nations are positioned above South Africa in the global rankings, with…
Equatorial Guinean health authorities sent samples to the Institut Pasteur reference laboratory in Senegal with support from World Health Organization (WHO) to determine the cause of the disease after an alert by a district health official on 7 February. Of the eight samples tested at Institut Pasteur, one turned out positive for the virus. So far nine deaths and 16 suspected cases with symptoms including fever, fatigue and blood-stained vomit and diarrhoea have been reported. Further investigations are ongoing. Advance teams have been deployed in the affected districts to trace contacts, isolate and provide medical care to people showing symptoms…