Police say diplomat Zetro Leonardo Purba was shot three times as he bicycled home to his apartment in Lima, Peru. Published On 2 Sep 20252 Sep 2025 The Peruvian government has offered its condolences for the “assassination” of an Indonesian diplomat in its capital, Lima, calling the situation “lamentable” and a “heinous act”. On Tuesday,…
On-demand delivery platform Sixty60 was introduced in 2019. Last-mile delivery platform Checkers Sixty60’s sales increased by 47.7% to R18.9 billion, for the year ended 30 June. In a SENS announcement, Shoprite Group says its Checkers supermarket chain recorded sales growth of 13.8%, adding R11.6 billion, to reach almost R100 billion in sales. “We continued executing…
The National Guard, police and protesters stand off outside of a downtown jail in Los Angeles following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids on June 08, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Spencer Platt | Getty Images A federal judge on Tuesday barred President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard…
Jason Lane-Sellers Travel fraud and related crime is on the rise worldwide as criminals take aim at the security vulnerabilities of rewards programmes offered by airlines, among other loopholes. According to Jason Lane-Sellers, director of fraud and identity for Europe, Middle East and Africa at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, criminals are hacking into multiple rewards programme…
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration violated a 19th-century law when it mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in June. Lawyers representing California argued during a three-day trial last month that President Donald Trump had exceeded his authority by deploying federal…
GirlCode has launched the Digital Skills Employment Acceleration Programme for Women, aimed at equipping young women (aged 18 to 35) with software development skills that will enable them to secure work in SA’s growing tech sector. Supplied image Zandile Mkwanazi, founder and chief executive officer of GirlCode, says the programme goes beyond learning how to…
AFP Locals are trying to deal with the aftermath of the disaster A landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told the BBC. Antoine Gérard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the…
Lenovo is reportedly set to unveil a number of new products at Europe’s IFA tech tradeshow, including a highly unusual concept laptop with a rotating screen. A leaked image from reliable leaker Evan Blass shows a device reportedly codenamed “Project Pivo,” which features a display that can switch between landscape and portrait orientations. Read: Google…
With labour’s contribution to economic growth steadily growing, Africa must focus on improving inward financial flows. In the early stages of development, economic growth is largely driven by the contribution of labour. After that, capital and eventually technology increase in relative importance. This happened with the Asian Tigers and China when they were poor, reflecting…
Cairo — A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan ‘s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday. The tragedy happened Sunday in the Tarasin village in Central Darfur’s Marrah Mountains…
