AFRICA

Just after 6pm on Saturday, as a marathon day of deliberations behind closed doors at the Judicial Service Commission, Julius Malema tweeted “It’s a girl”. The prophetic statement was confirmed within 30 minutes when the commission announced that it recommends that President Cyril Ramaphosa appoint Supreme Court of Appeal President …

Two pupils died and six others were injured when a minibus taxi driver transporting schoolchildren lost control of the vehicle in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. On Saturday, the KwaZulu-Natal education department said according to preliminary reports the children were on their way home from school when the minibus taxi veered out …

Firefighters were called to a school in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon after a fire broke out in its storage room. The room at Chapel Street Primary in District 6 was gutted. “The storage room contained printing machines, garden equipment, old storage shelving and the gardener’s bedding and personal effects,” …

A cash-in-transit driver was shot dead during a heist in Diepkloof, Soweto, on Saturday morning. According to reports, the van was on its way to a filling station in Zone Six when a Mercedes-Benz rammed into the cash van, causing it to stop at the corner Chris Hani and Collinder …

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has overturned the one-year ban handed out by Fifa to former Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Issa Hayatou. Football’s world governing body had ruled that the Cameroonian had breached its code of ethics when signing African football’s largest ever deal with French …

The 33rd African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, after witnessing an exciting journey so far, will see the Lions of Teranga, Senegal come up against eight times champions, the Pharaohs of Egypt in the finals on Sunday, February 6, at the Olembe Stadium, in Younde, Cameroon. Mane’s Senegal, thrashed Burkina …

A swarm of bees interrupted an athletics day at a Western Cape school on Thursday. Three ambulances were sent to Liebenberg Primary in Malmesbury after a group of pupils were stung. “The Western Cape government’s health emergency medical services responded to an incident at Liebenberg Primary School in Malmesbury,” said …

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says he believes that as the country moves closer to winter, there will be an expectation of a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Phaahla briefed the media on Friday on government’s efforts to fight Covid-19 as well as the national vaccine rollout programme. The minister focused most of the …

The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the recent trend of coup d’etats in the West African sub-region needs to be tackled before things become uncontrollable. The Ghanaian leader was speaking at the extraordinary summit of the Authority of …

A disgruntled retired Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier has abandoned his children. Mr Zaidi Bafonza,54, number RA/ 118292, who retired in 1992 from UPDF a month ago, abandoned his eight children in a makeshift house in Bukolooto trading centre in Kayunga District on claims that he had failed to …