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Pretoria: 03 September 2024 [embedded content] Brief interviews with SAMSA ship surveyor, Ms Mbali Mbonambi and 2OPIC official, Mr Vishal Pragraj while on aerial search for containers recently lost at sea on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coastline. A search for cargo containers lost overboard off a number of vessels along South Africa’s Indian Ocean corridor over the last month continues, while two of the vessels most recently affected – the MV CMA CMG Belem, currently in the port of Ngqurha, and … [Read more...] about Search on for Containers Lost Overboard off South Africa’s Indian Ocean

The Press Ombud has found that IOL violated the Press Code on four counts in an article about Renaldo Gouws’s infamous video.Renaldo Gouws is not to everyone’s liking. Like Marmite. So when IOL published a video clip in which he is seen and heard spewing racist hate speech, supporters and detractors of the controversial politician both lined up to have their say. It mattered little to both sides when the full video from which the 15-second clip was taken, providing some context, made it into the … [Read more...] about Ombud Finds IOL Broke Press Code on Renaldo Gouws Video

Activists picketed outside the High Court in Gqeberha in 2022 against seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. Archive photo: Joseph Chirume The Constitutional Court has refused to hear an appeal by Shell and Impact Africa on the right to conduct seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. The Supreme Court of Appeal had found that the right to conduct the surveys was granted unlawfully. However the Constitutional Court agreed to hear from Wild Coast communities and environmental justice organisations who … [Read more...] about Wild Coast: Constitutional Court Says No to Shell Appeal Bid

The Department of Cooperative Governance has decided to terminate contracts of Community Works Programme workers who are also getting old age grants. The department announced at the weekend that CWP workers who also receive old age grants would no longer be part of the programme, so that resources could be redirected to those who rely only on the CWP programme for a living. A verification exercise conducted with the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) had found that about 35,000 people in the CWP … [Read more...] about Pensioners Dropped From Community Works Programme

Pretoria: 17 August 2024: Adverse weather conditions impacting South Africa this past week have led to yet another large container vessel losing as many as 99 containers off the east coast of South Africa, according to the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA). In response, a navigational warning to sailing vessels has been issued and a public call made to report any sighting of the cargo containers possibly still floating at sea. In a statement at the weekend SAMSA confirmed … [Read more...] about Malta-flagged cargo vessel loses 99 containers at sea off South Africa east coast: SAMSA

The South African coastline stretches approximately 2,798 kilometers. This extensive coastline borders both the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Indian Ocean to the east, featuring a diverse range of ecosystems, beaches, and marine life.In addition to the above South Africa is responsible for a substantial marine area, known as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The size of South Africa’s EEZ is approximately 1.5 million square kilometers.. This area extends 200 nautical miles from its … [Read more...] about The Unseen Unsung Heroes of our South African Coastline

You are here: Home / News / Search for seafarer fallen overboard a ship underway south of Cape Recife, Eastern Cape: SAMSA 20 August 2024 by Guest Pretoria: 19 August 2024: A search is currently underway for a seafarer who reportedly fell overboard a Liberian flagged cargo vessel, the MV Serenity Diva, 44 miles south of Cape Recife in the Eastern Cape on Monday, reports the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA). In a brief statement, the Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) … [Read more...] about Search for seafarer fallen overboard a ship underway south of Cape Recife, Eastern Cape: SAMSA

Pretoria: 20 August 2024: More than 200 people are being drawn in to ramp up the clean-up of oil from the grounded MV Ultra Galaxy cargo vessel after the last few days’ wintry and stormy weather on South Africa’s west coast teared the wreck further into pieces, reports the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA).In a statement in Pretoria on Tuesday, SAMSA confirmed: “The grounded cargo ship, MV Ultra Galaxy, has sustained significant damage following the severe weather and high … [Read more...] about Grounded vessel on South Africa’s west coast tears further into pieces as wintry, stormy weather continues to wreck it: SAMSA