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Pensioners in Argentina protested on Wednesday against the government's decision to restrict access to free medication provided by the PAMI public health insurance scheme. The new policy affects millions of people who rely on the programme.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
[The Herald] SAFA have confirmed Bafana Bafana's upcoming back-to-back 2022 AFCON qualifiers against Sao Tome and Principe will both be played in South Africa.
So you couldn't catch the latest episode of Skeem Saam? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Be warned of spoilers!
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday it's ramping up response to prevent cholera transmission in Somalia as flash floods from heavy downpours intensify across the country.
New leadership behind the wheel at Audi South Africa: Sascha Sauer to drive the luxury German brand for the South African region.
Is it time for another 'fellow South Africans...' from the president? Ramaphosa will officially address the public about lockdown restrictions next week.
Press Release - The Democratic Alliance (DA) notes with concern reports that the controversial self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary, managed to flee South Africa while expected to stand trial for allegations of fraud, theft, and money laundering to the value of R102 million. Bushiri and his wife were arrested in October and were each granted bail of R200 000 earlier this month on condition that they would remain in the country to appear in court.
The 10-second clip for the German car company’s new Volkswagen Golf model features a giant, white hand poking and prodding a Black man, much like he’s a marionette.
But the company backpedaled on Thursday when Volkswagen board member Juergen Stackmann and Volkswagen’s head of diversity management, Elke Heitmueller, said they were “horrified” by the ad in a joint Twitter statement translated into English by The Washington Post.
On top of the notoriety Volkswagen earned for its emissions cheating scandal, the company is responsible for several ads with controversial messaging.
In 2013, the company released a Super Bowl ad in which a white man spoke with a Jamaican accent and encouraged people to be more relaxed.
In 2017, it ran an ad for Audi (which the company also owns) that compared women to cars.
A Zambian man accused in the fraud and money laundering case along with self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, is allegedly an undocumented immigrant.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been accused of 'failing to secure South Africa's borders', after Pastor Bushiri fled the country.
Photo credits: U.S. State Department/Vector Images June Carter Perry (pictured) was born on November 13, 1943, inTexarkana, Arkansas. She is a retired American Ambassador (Sierra Leonefrom August 27, 2007, to August 28, 2009, andLesotho). Perry is a graduate of Loyola University in Chicago (B.A., history, 1965) and the University of Chicago (M.A. European History, 1967). […]
The airline has been heavily affected by the drop in demand for passenger flights.
The Malawian government has reportedly asked South Africa to make a formal request for the extradition of self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara won a third term with 94.27% of the vote, final results showed on Monday, after an election that opposition parties largely boycotted and dismissed as illegal.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be supported by a number of various ministers during the 12th BRICS Summit on Tuesday.
[Nyasa Times] Prophet Shepherd Bushiri is adamant that he's not running away from his trial in South Africa but that he and his wife Mary bolted out of the rainbow nation to travel back home in Malawi to seek intervention from his home country.
In 2011, Adrienne S. O’Neal, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). O’Neal was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 to Samuel and Vernese Boulware ONeal. Her mother was best known as a college professor and later Director of Admissions at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1970 to the early 1990s. Her father was an attorney.
O’Neal graduated from Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) in 1976 with dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Spanish Language and Business Administration. Two years later, she graduated from Middlebury College (Vermont) with a Master of Modern Languages degree in Spanish Language and Literature. In 1983, after a brief period in the Ph.D. program in Spanish and Portuguese Literature at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, she decided to pursue a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Her first assignment in 1984 was at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy. This was followed by a posting at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1987.
In 1991 O’Neal served as a Bureau of Public Affairs officer in the now post-Cold War U.S. State Department. Her first assignment was as Director for European and Eurasian Affairs where she was responsible for helping former Communist nations in Eastern Europe transition to democracy.
Returning to the United States in 1993, O’Neal was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be Deputy Press Secretary for Lee P. Brown, the Director of National Drug Control Policy (the Drug Czar). From 1995 to 1998, she served as the U.S. Embassy’s chief press agent in Maputo, Mozambique, during that nation’s transition to democratic rule after 15 years of socialist rule, civil war, and civil unrest.
From 1998 to 2003, O’Neal was Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and then from 2003 to 2006 she was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007 O’Neal returned to the United States where she
Following chaotic scenes in Brackenfell on Monday, the DA have said that the EFF's 'terrorising of communities' is comparable to the Nazis.
[New Times] The United Nations, on Thursday, November 5, awarded 237 Rwandan Police peacekeepers serving in its mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) with the medal of service excellence.
[Cosafa] Hosts South Africa claimed a fourth successive COSAFA Women's Championship title following a 2-1 victory over Botswana in the decider played at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday.
President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, is married to South African-born Melissa Cohen Biden.
It's seven goals in two matches for Banyana Banyana in the Cosafa Women's Championship, where they were ruthless against Eswatini.
A Colorado chapter of the NAACP is calling for an investigation after a middle school student was caught on camera going on an anti-Black tirade, according to FOX 31. The Rocky Mountain NAACP told reporters a white student at West Middle School in Greenwood Village recorded an off-campus video of himself using racial slurs, anti-Black … Continued
