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Banyana Banyana squander two-nil lead to draw two-all against Argentina

Banyana Banyana squandered a two-nil lead and drew two-all with Argentina in a Group G encounter in Dunedin, New Zealand earlier this morning. Banyana Banyana’s forward, Linda Motlhalo, scored South Africa’s opening goal in the 30th minute after receiving a good pass from Thembi Kgatlana. The goal was given after a video assistant referee (VAR) review. Kgatlana scored the second goal for Banyana Banyana in the 66th minute. Argentina pulled a goal […]

28 July 2023

International

New Zealand won’t require visitors from China to show COVID test

INTERNATIONAL The New Zealand government said it will not require travellers from China to produce a negative COVID-19 test on arrival, bucking a trend that has seen a number of countries implement testing measures as COVID cases surge in China. New Zealand’s COVID-19 minister, Ayesha Verrall, said in a statement on Wednesday that a public health risk assessment had concluded visitors from China would not contribute significantly to the number of […]

4 January 2023

International News

New Zealand PM promises to tighten counter-terrorism laws following supermarket stabbing

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Saturday to tighten counter-terrorism laws this month after a knife-wielding militant known to the authorities stabbed and wounded seven people in a supermarket. Police shot dead the 32-year-old attacker, a Sri Lankan national who had been convicted and imprisoned for about three years before being released in July, moments after he launched his stabbing spree on Friday. Ardern said earlier the man […]

4 September 2021

International News

New Zealand bans entry of travellers from India amid COVID surge

New Zealand has temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border on Thursday, of which 17 were from India. “We are temporarily suspending entry into New Zealand for travellers from India,” Prime Minister […]

8 April 2021

International News

Over 250,000 abused in New Zealand’s state and faith-based care

Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday. An interim report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse of children in state care estimated that up to 256,000 people were abused between 1950 and 2019. This accounts for almost 40 percent of […]

16 December 2020

International News

New Zealand charges 13 parties over White Island deaths, injuries

A New Zealand watchdog has filed charges against 13 parties over the death of 22 people during a volcanic eruption on White Island last year. In a statement on Monday, WorkSafe said its year-long inquiry found that 10 organisations and three individuals had failed to meet their health and safety obligations by taking tourists to the active volcano, also known as Whakaari in Maori. The watchdog, which regulates workplace related […]

30 November 2020

International News

Jacinda Ardern wins New Zealand election by landslide

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office on Saturday, delivering the biggest election victory for her centre-left Labour Party in half a century as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to COVID-19. The win is also the reward for Ardern’s leadership through a series of extraordinary events that shaped her first three-year term: the gunman’s massacre of 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques and […]

18 October 2020

News

Tears and relief as Christchurch terrorist handed down life sentence

Emotions were intensified in New Zealand today as a life sentence was handed down to 29-year-old terrorist Brenton Tarrant – who massacred 51 musallees at the Al Noor and Linwood Masajid in Christchurch during Jumuah prayers on 15 March 2019. In a landmark ruling, Judge Cameron Mander said the white supremacist would be given a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Thursday – the first of its kind […]

27 August 2020

International News

New Zealand suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong

New Zealand has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in protest against a "deeply concerning" national security law that China imposed on the semiautonomous city. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said on Tuesday that "New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong's criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China." "If China in future shows adherence to the 'one country, two systems' framework then we could reconsider this […]

28 July 2020

New Zealand

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