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March 27, 2019. Manila, Philippines. — South African Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Martin Slabber visited the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Central Office on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, to make his farewell courtesy call to INC Executive Minister, Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. The first time that Ambassador Slabber went to the INC Central Office was in 2016, after hearing about Brother Eduardo V. Manalo’s pastoral visit to INC members in South Africa […]
DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) — Thousands of South African workers staged nationwide demonstrations on Wednesday to protest high unemployment and government policies that they say have failed to create jobs and are deepening poverty. Workers dressed in red t-shirts, showing their loyalty to the trade union movement, gathered in the southeastern port city of Durban, Johannesburg and other locations for open-air rallies three months ahead of the country’s general election. Companies in South Africa, […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Countries neighbouring South Africa have banned the import of cloven-hoofed animals and their products over a foot-and-mouth disease breakout in the northern Limpopo province, government said Monday. On Monday Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana confirmed the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), first identified a week ago in Vhembe district near the border with Zimbabwe. The outbreak prompted the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to lift the FMD-free status that the […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Two passenger trains collided head on during the morning rush hour in South Africa’s capital city Pretoria Tuesday, killing three people and injuring hundreds, emergency services said. Two critically injured people were airlifted from the scene of the crash in Mountain View, northern Pretoria, spokesman Charles Mabaso told AFP. Another 641 people were hurt, with 11 sustaining critical injuries and 62 suffering “moderate” injuries. “The current fatalities stand at three, […]
by Michelle GUMEDE Agence France Presse JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — High operating costs and tight customer budgets have left US coffee giant Starbucks needing a caffeine hit after it abandoned ambitious expansion plans in South Africa — seen as a foothold for the continent. Starbucks looked set to take the country by storm when the opening of its first store in the Rosebank district of Johannesburg in April 2016 attracted big crowds who queued […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -A club only promoted to Burkina Faso’s top division last year is poised to complete a CAF Confederation Cup shock when they take on big guns Al Masry of Egypt this weekend. Salitas, from the Burkinabe capital city Ouagadougou, host last season’s semi-finalists Al Masry with a 2-0 aggregate lead after the first leg of their round-of-32 tie in Port Said last weekend. It was a remarkable result as the West African […]
by Ben Sheppard JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth have focused attention on South Africa’s progress since the euphoric 1994 elections that marked the end of apartheid. The country’s the emergence from decades of the white-minority rule was greeted with optimism around the world, but over the last 24 years South Africa has struggled to live up to Mandela’s vision. Race and inequality A World Bank report […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP)- A man stabbed to death two people in an attack at a mosque in South Africa early Thursday, before being shot dead by police, police said. Several people were also wounded in the attack in the town of Malmesbury near the southwestern city of Cape Town. “Malmesbury police were called out to a local mosque and found two people dead with stab wounds and several injured,” Noliyoso Rwexana, spokesperson for the […]
by Susan NJANJI Agence France-Presse SUTHERLAND, South Africa (AFP) — Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope system. The latest move combines the new optical telescope MeerLITCH […]
Former residents of the Fattis Mansion in downtown Johannesburg who were evicted the day before during a Red Ants operation, a municipal team tasked with evictions, sift through their belongings, on July 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Marami sa mga Afrikano ang namumuhay sa labis na kahirapan. Pinatotohanan ito ng ilang residenteng naninirahan sa Manyatseng sa South Africa. Bukod pa rito, laganap rin daw ang iba’t-ibang klase ng krimen dala ng kahirapan. Subalit dumating ang pagkakataon para magbago ang takbo ng buhay ng ilang taga-Ladybrand at karatig lugar. Agosto 6 noong nakaraang taon nang pasinayaan ng Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo ang kapatid na Eduardo V. Manalo ang […]
by Ben SHEPPARD and Gregory WALTON Agence France Presse JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures. The firebrand activist died in a Johannesburg hospital, her family said, adding that she had “fought valiantly against the Apartheid state” and that she was known “far and wide […]
