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15 Dead, 37 Injured In Bizzare South Africa Bus Accident

15 Dead, 37 Injured In Bizzare South Africa Bus Accident

It was a bizzare incident as some fifteen people were reported dead and 37 injured on Friday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria.

“The death toll is now 15 dead, and 37 people have been injured, some of them critically,” spokesman Thabo Charles Mabaso said.

The accident happened before dawn, and rescue workers were called at 5:05 am.

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“Emergency services arrived on scene to find a bus and truck that collided head-on, with multiple patients lying around and

South African Mauled To Death By His Two White Lions

South African Mauled To Death By His Two White Lions

A South African man identified as West Mathewson, has been mauled to death by two lionesses after he opened the paddock he kept them in to take them for a morning walk.

West Mathewson, 68, was mauled to death by the two adult white lions which he had kept since they were cubs rescued from a “canned hunting farm” where wild animals are hunted in enclosures.

He was killed during a walk on Wednesday morning around the game lodge that he ran, South African police confirmed.

Mathewson was dead with multiple injuries at the time the police and emergency services …

Unions Oppose South Africa Airways Rescue Plan, Vow Court Action

Unions Oppose South Africa Airways Rescue Plan, Vow Court Action

Two South African unions on Friday rejected job cuts proposed to rescue South African Airways from bankruptcy.

The rescue plan has cost the government more than a billion dollars to stave off bankruptcy.

State-owned SAA went into a form of bankruptcy protection in December.

Since then state-appointed administrators have been trying to see what they can salvage.

Unions had been in discussions with them and had previously accepted that some job cuts would be necessary.

The current plan, which would involve laying off about 90% of …

South Africa Rolls Out Mobile Testing In Virus Lockdown

South Africa Rolls Out Mobile Testing In Virus Lockdown

South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood as Africa’s worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19.

Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up their testing station on the front porch of a block of flats in the gritty business neighbourhood.

Nurse Xola Dlomo told AFP they were asking one resident to mobilise fellow flat dwellers to come for screening and tests.

“They’ve been coming for screening and they are even open to testing if they have symptoms,” Dlomo said.

Already in a 21-day lockdown, South …

Semenya Switches To 200m In Search Of More Olympics Glory

Semenya Switches To 200m In Search Of More Olympics Glory

Star South African 800-metre athlete Caster Semenya said on Friday she hopes to compete in the 200m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

The 29-year-old is prohibited from defending her 800m Olympics title because she refuses to adhere to testosterone regulations set by governing body World Athletics.

Semenya, and other female athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD), are banned from competing in races between 400m and the mile unless they take testosterone-lowering medication.

She won the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics 800m titles and was the world champion over the distance in 2009, 2011 and 2017.

The South …