One court for Abuja, Nigeria capital, don sentence one South African citizen to 40 years in prison afta e find her guilty of importing 5.75kg heroin into Nigeria through di Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
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15 September 2026UPDATED 15 September 2026 •WORLD AFP US President Donald Trump arrives to speak after US Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks during the second day of the Republican National Committee midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on September 10, 2026. AFP
President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 15, 2026) went after the U.S. Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms, saying justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.” The Trump administration had made a last-minute push to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central…
AI is beginning to influence how boards of directors make decisions in South African companies. Directors use it to do things like assess financial information, predict market trends or identify potential risks before making strategic decisions.
Water affects almost every part of daily life: drinking, sanitation, food production, health, jobs and the natural environment. Yet in South Africa, three million people don’t have clean running water, and 14 million have no flushing toilets.
Europe’s plan to make pharmaceutical and cosmetics producers pay for wastewater treatment has suffered a legal setback. An Advocate General at the EU’s top court has recommended annulling the provisions behind the scheme, citing serious flaws in how the EU assessed the sectors’ contribution to micropollution.
CHINA / DIPLOMACY China stresses law enforcement cooperation with East African countries
South Africa is set to extradite six Nigerian nationals to the United States, where they face serious charges related to romance scams and cyberfraud. Police identified these individuals as part of the Black Axe organized crime network, which is suspected of defrauding more than 100 American women in excess of 100 million rand ($6.2 million).
The firm has added a lawyer with over 20 years’ experience to its client offering.
About 74% of South Africa’s electricity is generated by coal-fired power stations owned by the state-owned electricity provider, Eskom.