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Archive photo of OR Tambo Airport (Photo: Shutterstock)The Department of Health is appealing for calm after two foreigners who are suspected to have contracted the hanta virus on a passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean, have already entered South Africa ill.The one, a British citizen, is in a critical condition in isolation in a private hospital in Sandton.The second, a Dutch woman, died in Kempton Park, after she tried to catch a flight to the Netherlands at the OR Tambo international airport and then collapsed.The department now says it is working with the provincial department of health in Gauteng and…
A VETERAN in DJing, DJ Tira, has challenged young artists in the field of art to work hard where they are based, not to look and not to tell themselves that they need to move to Johannesburg to be successful.DJ Tira said so while accepting the Best Kwaito award he won for his song You don’t know me. He sang this song with PCee, Campmasters and General Simamane at the Metro FM Music Awards in ICC, Durban, last weekend.By winning this award, Tira beat Dladla Mshunqisi and BeastRSA with their song Drive DriveDJ Lag, Zee Nxumalo and KC Driller for…
New Delhi, India – Seema Das, a househelp in New Delhi, took on a two-day journey to reach her village in India’s West Bengal state, changing trains to make sure she got home in time to vote in provincial elections.Das had previously always voted for the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a centrist political force that has been in power in the eastern Indian state since 2011. But this time, she said, her mother-in-law had convinced her that “Didi” – a nickname for Banerjee, which translates to elder sister in Bangla – “favours Muslims”.Das,…
A piece of information that took my breath away is that bees have to visit around two million flowers to produce just 450 g of honey. In addition, the average beehive must produce about 40 times that amount of honey to survive the cold winter months.
An uproar broke out when the CEO of AfriForum, Mr. Kallie Kriel, revealed that he had a meeting with MK Party President, Mr. Jacob Zuma in Durban this week.Kriel caused a stir by circulating a photo of himself shaking hands with Zuma. In the text accompanying the photo, Kriel explained how the meeting went and what they discussed with this leader who was once the president of the country under the ANC. “Today I had a constructive meeting with former president Jacob Zuma in Durban. We discussed topics such as the importance of mother tongue education, the promotion of mutual…
Brett Herron, GOOD-LP en die party se sekretaris-generaal. (Foto: Facebook / Brett Herron Politics) The political party Good says the City of Cape Town should reimburse residents after the Cape Town High Court ordered last week that the metro’s implementation of its tariff model for a cleaning charge is unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid. The controversial rates involved a cleaning charge and fixed rates for water and sanitation which were calculated on the basis of property value. Brett Herron, secretary general of Good, says a significant amount of money has been collected from residents with these rates in the past year.…
AI in Medical: Recently a research has come to light. In this, AI performed better than some doctors in diagnosing patients’ diseases and planning their treatment. Even in emergency rooms, AI saw many cases and in most cases performed better than doctors.AI is now playing its role not only in telling recipes and making photos, but also in treating patients. A new Harvard study released recently has shown that advanced AI models can perform better than doctors in identifying patients’ diseases. Even in the emergency room (ER). The researchers said that OpenAI’s advanced o1 language model was put into direct…
MORE and more artists are supporting the campaign to deport foreigners who are in the country illegally. The famous actor started inMkhokha The CurseDeli Malinga, who never stopped marching in March and March, especially in Durban. This campaign, which was founded by Jacinta Ngobese who was a Vuma FM and Gagasi FM broadcaster, was then joined by the actorShaka Ilembe Nkosikhona “Phakel’umthakathi” Ndabandaba and former Khozi FM broadcaster, Ngizwe Mchunu. Pianist Mbongeni “Oscar Mbo” Ndlovu said that South Africa belongs to the people of this country. “Enough. If foreigners want to be in this country, they should follow the proper…
(Photo: Pixabay)South Africa’s manufacturing industry, which has long been considered a cornerstone of the economy, is rapidly declining – and without urgent intervention the country could suffer irreparable damage.This is the serious warning of Busisiwe Mavuso, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), who in her latest weekly newsletter urges the government to take urgent action.”Any ambition that South Africa has to rebuild its industrial base is disappearing before our eyes,” says Mavuso.”If the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition does not change course, a whole generation of South Africans will pay the price.”Manufacturing under pressureAccording to Mavuso, manufacturing contributes…
It is not known whether the conflict between EFF leader Mr. Julius Malema and the former Khozi FM broadcaster but now the president of Binka, Ngizwe " Zulu Charmer” Mchunu, as the time limit for Ngizwe to apologize to Malema has expired.