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Local price falls and the weakening of the South African rand have brought costs down for UK visitors by 12% since autumn 2023, Post Office Travel Money said. This makes Cape Town the best value out of 32 resorts and cities analysed in the annual study for the first time since 2018. Typical prices include £1.63 for a cup of filter coffee, £1.81 for a bottle of local beer, and £33.31 for a three-course evening meal for two with a bottle of house wine. Tokyo, Japan, was be the second best value long-haul destination, followed by Vietnam’s Hoi An, which…
KINSHASA – Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, will begin a vaccination campaign on Saturday, three days later than planned.WATCH | Mpox Outbreak | Currently no Mpox vaccines in SAJabs were set to be rolled out on Wednesday in DRC but health authorities told AFP this would not be the case.However Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba on Friday confirmed the start date.”We are launching, from tomorrow, October 5, the vaccination campaign,” Kamba told a press conference in the DRC capital Kinshasa.Vaccinations will be given in the North Kivu provincial capital Goma in eastern DRC, the region hardest…
According to reports, Manchester United have had an ‘offer declined’ with ‘frantic talks underway’ as they look to replace Erik ten Hag. The Dutch head coach was under immense pressure last season as Man Utd underperformed en route to finishing eighth in the Premier League. However, Ten Hag kept his job after Man Utd beat arch-rivals Man City at Wembley to win the FA Cup. The Red Devils were linked with several potential replacements but co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his new recruitment team extended his contract until 2026. Ten Hag needed a strong start to the season, but Man…
Photo: Sofia Vergara accepts plastic surgery claims unlike Heidi Klum: SourceSofia Vergara and Heidi Klum reportedly have different approaches to plastic surgery claims.Both the A-listed actresses are seeking help from a beauty practitioner to maintain their natural beauty, as per the findings of Life & Style. A source even claimed about the duo, “There’s a lot of pressure on both of them to be perfect.”They also claimed, “and as genetically blessed as they are, everyone’s convinced they’ve been getting some help along the way from the plastic surgeon to stay so youthful.” “There’s a very obvious game of one-upping being played…
Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an address in Tehran, called the missile attack on Israel “legal and legitimate”. He had a rifle by his side as he spoke, days after Iran’s missile attack on Israel. In other news, India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting on October 15-16. This will be the first visit by an Indian foreign minister to Pakistan in nearly a decade. Click on the headlines to read moreIran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed worshippers in Tehran…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s African National Congress party said Thursday that it has a broad agreement with the main opposition and other parties to form a coalition government and end a political deadlock after the ANC lost its 30-year majority in an election two weeks ago.The announcement came on the eve of the first sitting of South Africa’s new Parliament, when lawmakers will elect a president. The ANC needs help from other parties to reelect President Cyril Ramaphosa for a second and final term. The ANC lost its long-held parliamentary majority in the May 29 vote.ANC…
Johannesburg, South Africa – January 10, 2023- Pen to Point, a leader in providing innovative online solutions, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new South Africa Business Directory. This platform is designed to make it easy for users to find and list local businesses, fostering connections between service providers and customers across the nation.Pen to Point’s business directory is all about simplifying the process of finding and promoting local businesses,” of Pen to Point. Whether you need a service or want to enhance the visibility of your own business, our platform is here to connect you with the…
Writer and game designer Yuji Horii is largely considered the father of Dragon Quest, the long-time Final Fantasy rival up until Square Soft and Enix merged in 2003. So when he says something about the franchise, fans take note. And that’s what happened recently when he weighed in on a very small but very charged tweak to Dragon Quest III in the upcoming remake. Clear Your Calendar For Final Fantasy 7 RebirthDragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, the first of three visual overhauls of the original games, changes the description for the starting hero choices. Instead of male and female, the…
(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s $1.9 billion citrus-export industry, the world’s biggest after Spain, faces a new disease threat amid an ongoing dispute with the European Union over fungal infections. The country said it will start a surveillance program around the southern city of Gqeberha after the African strain of the citrus-greening disease was detected in residential areas there. Gqeberha is the largest city in the Eastern Cape, the second-biggest citrus-growing province in the country. The program will determine what measures to take, the country’s agriculture department said in a statement on Friday. The insect-borne bacterial disease causes blotching of leaves and reduces…
A white South African farmer ran over a 6-year-old boy for allegedly “stealing” an orange off the ground, and now the community demands answers. Outrage is quickly spreading across South Africa’s West Coast after 70-year-old farmer Christoffel Johannes Stoman was arrested for ramming his vehicle — with a trailer attached — into Kwezi Beukes, a young boy from Lutzville, over a piece of fruit. The incident happened on Sept. 20, when Beukes and his mother, Magdalene Jantijies, were on their way to do food shopping and walked by Stoman’s smallholder farm. The child reportedly picked up one orange off the…