MAMOUDZOU, Dec 19 (Reuters) – People in storm-ravaged Mayotte implored French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to help on Thursday as he toured the overseas territory where scores are feared dead in the rubble left by Cyclone Chido.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Amazon.com AMZN.O workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush as workers protest what they say is the retailing giant’s unfair treatment of its employees.

Operations at OR Tambo International Airport continue to face challenges. The latest is long queues at immigration due to an ‘unresponsive Biometric Movement Control System’.

Seven months after the Khampepe Commission found the City of Johannesburg liable for the deadly Usindiso building fire and recommended memorialising the site and demolishing the building, Mayor Dada Morero plans to convert the building into his office.

Retrenched security personnel will spend their Christmas waiting after their employer Tracer Security Solutions no-show at facilitation meetings, ghosting messages and calls. In an attempt to reach their employer, almost 200 employees gathered outside Pinelands Business Park on 9 December 2024, handing over a memorandum listing their grievances. As of 18 December, the deadline for the employer...

If I had one wish this festive season it would be for South African sport to be rid of hopeless and corrupt officials.

The sharp rise in road fatalities so far this festive season has been particularly pronounced among pedestrians, says the Transport Minister.

Thousands of schools in South Africa don’t have computer labs and many teachers have no coding experience, making it difficult to implement coding and robotics curricula in primary schools. Tangible Africa is trying to address the problem.

After weeks of fielding complaints about the stinking water from the Nelson Mandela Bay metro’s taps, municipal officials finally admitted on Thursday that the water had an algae bloom and while not harmful to human health, it had a very unpleasant smell. This comes as the city faces water shortages and also had 28 power outages in the first 19 days of December.

As he weighs in on Mozambique’s election, Angola’s President João Lourenço, promoted to regional statesman by the doddering Joe Biden, is digging into the contemporary Western playbook for dealing with countries that flout democratic practices.

The developmental notion behind steel production is simply that steel is a foundational building block at the base of the industrial system. Get that right, and the rest will follow. And yet it has led to perhaps the biggest policy misstep of the modern era in South Africa.

Revisiting Orwell’s 1984 in 2024 was a reminder that while the tools of control have evolved, the core dynamics of power and manipulation remain unchanged. Yet, we should resist the temptation to see 1984 as a definitive prophecy. Instead, it is a powerful cautionary tale, reminding us that those in power will always seek new ways to control, influence, and shape reality to their advantage.