(Source: News 24)
Former minister and ANC member of Parliament Tina Joemat-Pettersson has died.
Parliament announced through a poster on Monday night that Joemat-Pettersson had died.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved comrade, Tina Joemat-Pettersson,” reads the statement, adding that at the time of her death she was an ANC Member of Parliament serving as the chairperson of the police study group.
– Bongekile Macupe
PRINCE HARRY SET TO GIVE EVIDENCE IN PHONE HACKING TRIAL
(Source: CNN)
LONDON — Prince Harry will take to the witness stand Tuesday as his years-long battle against Britain’s tabloid media reaches its most dramatic stage so far.
The royal is preparing to face questions in a London court as part of his case against a major newspaper publisher.
The appearance of a British royal in a witness box will be an exceptionally rare event. But Harry has long railed against the tactics of the tabloid media in covering his life, and he will now have the opportunity to lay out his arguments, under oath, during cross-examination from MGN’s lawyers.
It’s likely to be a tense and defining appearance for the duke as he forges his own path further from the rest of the royal family.
RUSSIA HAS BLOWN UP MAJOR UKRAINIAN DAM, SAYS KYIV
(Source: BBC)
A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood of water.
Ukraine’s military has accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russian officials have blamed the Ukrainians.
People are currently being evacuated from communities in the surrounding areas, with fears that any flooding could be catastrophic.
The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant is in the city of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine’s Kherson region, which is currently under Russian occupation.
It was built in the Soviet era and is one of six dams that sit along the Dnipro River, which stretches all the way from the very north of the country into the sea in the south.
It’s huge and holds water equal to the Great Salt Lake in the US state of Utah, according to Reuters.
Images circulating on social media this morning show a massive breach in the dam, with water already unleashed across the war zone and flooding downstream in the direction of Kherson.
It is not yet clear how bad the flooding is or will be. But depending on how big the breach is, flooding could be devastating.
The authorities in Kherson, less than 50 miles downstream, have warned residents in low lying parts of the city to evacuate as quickly as possible and seek shelter on higher ground.
The head of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, told Ukrainian TV this morning that eight villages had been fully or completely flooded already, with more expected to be flooded. He said the authorities were evacuating residents by bus and train and 16,000 people were in what he called a “critical zone”.
