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South Africa faces highest level power cuts as generation units fail

admin | February 24, 2025

By Reuters South Africa’s Eskom has managed to restore eight units at power plants after implementing its highest stage of controlled power cuts early on Sunday, the power utility said after multiple failures at Majuba and Camden power stations over the weekend. On Saturday, Eskom applied Stage 3 power cuts, […]

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Rains force South Africa to close border crossing with Botswana

admin | January 15, 2025

By Reuters South Africa has temporarily closed a key border crossing with Botswana due to heavy rainfall and flooding, the country’s border authority said. The Grobler’s Bridge crossing in northern South Africa is used for trade, especially by miners in the Copperbelt region straddling Zambia and the Democratic Republic of […]

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S.Africa opposition seeks to revive impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa

admin | November 26, 2024

BY REUTERS South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) brought a case to the country’s top court on Tuesday to try to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over the scandal dubbed “Farmgate” by local media. The scandal centred on the alleged theft of millions of dollars […]

Sports

Onyango tells Cranes to aim for three to get one

Reporter | November 14, 2024

By Andrew Mwanguhya Uganda have had six opportunities to beat South Africa and on each the Cranes have fallen short. Two of those came in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, both of which Uganda lost. They include the 1-0 defeat at Namboole in 2004 courtesy of a Benni McCarthy penalty. Two […]

World News

Two South African soldiers killed on DR Congo mission

admin | February 15, 2024

By AFP Two South African soldiers have been killed in a mortar strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Thursday, their force’s first casualties since it deployed to help quell an insurgency. Announcing the deaths, the South African military said three more soldiers were wounded in the […]