
Athi Mtongana
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Fearfully & Wonderfully made. African & International News Reporting. Multi-award winning TV News Storyteller. @FPA_Africa📧:[email protected]
South Africa
Joined February 2010
WOMEN SAFETY: A young woman, Amber Collins was followed by an unknown man from her work place to town. The man took the same taxi and followed her all the way from the terminus. It was when she screamed in front of us that we noticed him and how inappropriately he touched her.
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KHUMALO’S HEALTH IS IMPROVING (Divisional Commissioner for Crime Intelligence at SAPS who fell ill before testifying at the Madlanga Commission) Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo “will come right.” - says National Police Commissioner, General Masemola
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Cedrick Nkabinde (Mchunu’s Chief of Staff): “Should anything happen to me, the National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola will be responsible.” General Masemola: “I am in charge of the police, so maybe he’s right to drag my name in, maybe unfairly so, I don’t know.”
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“GENERAL MKHWANAZI IS SAFE” Says National Police Commissioner, General Masemola.
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“THEY’RE NOT GONE”, SAYS GENERAL MASEMOLA (Minister, Mchunu on special leave & suspended deputy national commissioner, Sibiya). “I’ve got no hard feelings against anybody. I’m hating nobody. I don’t know from their side...” - General Masemola; National Police Commissioner
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BREAKING: China announces export restrictions on several rare earth elements.
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Share of people living on less than $3 per day: 1. 🇨🇩 DR of Congo: 85.3% 2. 🇲🇿 Mozambique: 82.2% 3. 🇲🇼 Malawi: 75.4% 4. 🇧🇮 Burundi: 74.2% 5. 🇿🇲 Zambia: 71.7% 6. 🇨🇫 Central African Republic: 71.6% 7. 🇳🇪 Niger: 60.5% 8. 🇺🇬 Uganda: 59.8% 9. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 49.2% 10. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 46.4%
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Social development minister Sisisi Tolashe admits to Parliament’s portfolio committee that the appointment of a 22-year-old personal assistant, was not above board. LD
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I have concluded a successful two-day working visit to the Republic of South Sudan. The visit sought to take stock of the state of the implementation of the 2018 Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). I held engagements
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We welcome the agreement between Rwanda and the DRC supported by @POTUS. The EU is ready to support the peace process, President @PaulKagame. Because it will pave way for regional integration – and investment. Starting right now. Global Gateway supports Rwanda's ambition to
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PARLIAMENT x MKHWANAZI “…all these moves was definitely to circumvent the investigation of the operation in Gauteng.” - General Masemola; National Police Commissioner
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Dear @CyrilRamaphosa, with Global Gateway investments worth almost €12 billion, we're fully behind your ambition to become a clean energy leader And we're making great strides in scaling up renewables in Africa with a €618 million Team Europe package ↓
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If one makes an issue of noise of an empty drum, they also have a problem! Better to let it pass or walk away from it !!!
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“I will never resign, they must fire me.” - suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lt. Gen. Shadrack Sibiya
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PARLIAMENT x MKHWANAZI General Masemola tells the Ad Hoc Committee (evidence leader) that the minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu who was with him a few days before, never expressed his unhappiness about the Political Killings Task Team and disbandment request.
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🇨🇩 @FelixUdps, le processus de paix en cours facilité par les États-Unis pour l'est de la RDC est une excellente nouvelle. Avec l'@_AfricanUnion, nous voulons vous aider à le pérenniser. Grâce à une plus grande intégration régionale en Afrique centrale, soutenue par les
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China hopes to see a full, immediate and permanent ceasefire in #Gaza and the easing of its humanitarian crisis and tensions in the wider region. China remains steadfast in supporting “Palestinians governing Palestine” and the two-State solution, and will continue to strive for a
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The Ukrainian parliament has just slapped Donald Trump in the face. They have voted down a motion to support his Nobel Peace Prize nomination With friends like these @WhiteHouse who needs enemies?
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ICJ x ISRAEL International Court of Justice will deliver its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations
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On 10 October 2025, H.E. Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, President of the Republic of Namibia, and H.E. Adv. Duma Gideon Boko, President of the Republic of Botswana, will co-chair the Heads of State Summit of the Namibia–Botswana Bi-National Commission The Second Session of the BNC
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Today, we rejoice in the sight of children celebrating in Gaza, but we mourn for the children whose laughter we will never hear. My statement on the announcement of a ceasefire.
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