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The body of a woman (58) was found at an Otjimbingwe river bed on Sunday. Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba says Frieda Rooi accompanied a man (24) to his place on Saturday, where they spent the night. The man claims he discovered that Rooi was unresponsive at about 06h00 on Sunday, the police […]
The writing has always been on the wall for the demise of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), political scientist Rui Tyitende says. This comes after the party failed to garner enough seats to form a government in last week’s national elections. Speaking to Desert Radio on Monday, Tyitende said the ANC’s journey to […]
Preparations for this year’s presidential and National Assembly elections are in full swing, with the Electoral Commission of Namibia rolling out a voters’ registration drive starting on Monday and running until 1 August. Namibians of voting age are encouraged to register to participate in November’s elections. Independent Patriots for Change presidential candidate Panduleni Itula on […]
China has accused UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of recruiting Chinese state employees as spies. In a post on its official WeChat channel, China’s Ministry of State Security said MI6 operatives turned a Chinese man identified only by his surname Wang and his wife surnamed Zhou against Beijing. Both worked in “core confidential” departments in […]
More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around 33 people died in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. In Odisha (Orissa) state, about 20 people died due to heat stroke, […]
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election. That gives her a lead of more than 30 percentage points over her main […]
A truck collided with a car and crashed into a house in the Narraville area of Walvis Bay on Sunday. The truck was driven by a 39-year-old Zambian man. According to Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba, the lorry first collided head-on with a double-cab bakkie that was driven by a 54-year-old woman. It […]
South Africa’s ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says the party will not negotiate with any political party that demands the removal of president Cyril Ramaphosa as part of their coalition negotiations. Mbalula says parties with such conditions could “forget about it”. “Cyril is a no-go area. You come to us with that demand, forget it. […]
South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has painted a vivid picture of the political ordeal his African National Congress (ANC) faces, by using dark humour as he reflected on the election results speech delivered by Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Mosotho Moepya. In his address on Sunday evening, Moepya erroneously referred to the just-ended poll as […]
The apparent threat by MK leader, former president Jacob Zuma, against the Electoral Commission is inherently about violence. However, he is also daring all the other role players, and most of the country, insisting they bend to his will. This may turn out to be over-reach, and make any kind of working relationship with the […]