Новости за 01.05.2016

THE ANC faces multiple and growing challenges to its power this year at the precise moment the party has been weakened by the scandals of its president.

A TALE of black pain versus white tears is playing out on social media after a Rhodes Must Fall activist boasted about how he and his peers visited a restaurant and brought a white waitress to tears.

Leicester will have to wait at least a day to clinch their maiden Premier League title after they drew 1-1 with United on Sunday.

Two people died in a collision between two cars on the N12 near Witbank, near the Kendal/Balmoral off-ramp, paramedics said.

Voting for the ANC is a contribution to the maintenance of peace and unity in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said.

About 8 000 members of the Cosatu converged on Durban’s Curries Fountain Stadium for the trade union federation’s Workers Day rally.

SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande says the launch of new federation by former Cosatu unions will never materialise.

A national study of child murders has found despite SA’s liberal abortion laws, there are still a high number of mothers who abandon their newborns.

A young man who claims he won R5.84m on SA’s biggest online sports betting website is set for a David vs Goliath-type battle to get his winnings.

The UN says it has received “worrying information” about armed clashes in Mozambique between national security forces and members of Renamo.

Al-Qaeda franchises have emerged on several continents since Osama bin Laden founded the Sunni jihadist network in 1988.

Leolin Zas was “a bit unlucky” to get a red card as he had slipped and his eyes were on the ball, says Stormers captain Juan de Jongh.

While the struggle pre-1994 was to secure workers’ rights, the struggle post-1994 is the struggle for jobs, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said.

After four years of top-level reshuffles, purges and executions, Kim Jong-Un will formally cement his unassailable status.

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan signalled his tough stance on bailing out under-performing state-owned enterprises.

Qatar WC 2022 organisers are probing a death at one of their sites, but have denied working conditions may be to blame.

Thousands were inside Baghdad's Green Zone after breaking into the fortified area and storming parliament.

Clashes broke out between police and dozens of protesters who were trying to get to Taksim square where celebrations were banned on May Day.

Jihadist group Abu Sayyaf has released 10 Indonesians it was still holding captive, local media reported.

Colombian officials arrested a top Peruvian crime lord dangerous enough to be compared to Mexico's Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman.

With just under a hundred days to go to the Rio Games, three of the world’s top 20 golfers have withdrawn.

Independent Media’s decision not to run Oakbay Investments adverts in its newspapers was solely based on legal reasons, the company said.

A Cape Town waitress who was denied a tip apparently because of her skin colour has become the focus of two international crowd-funding campaigns.

Eight people were arrested in a raid at a plush Umhlanga home believed to belong to Durban businesswoman Rosanne Narandas.

Lewis, the largest of the Outer Hebrides islands clustered off Scotland’s west coast, is a wild, wind-whipped place.