Tag: South Africa
South Africa announces plan to bid for Olympic Games
In a visit to South Africa in October 2024, former IOC president Thomas Bach had said the country had "the stability, the infrastructure and vision to stage an Olympics".
Lab-grown diamonds robbing southern Africa of riches
It is exploring other avenues too, like boosting luxury wildlife tourism, launching into the medicinal cannabis market and exploiting its abundant sunshine for solar power.
First Omicron case in Malaysia from South African student
A female student from South Africa has been confirmed as the first Omicron Covid-19 variant case in Malaysia
B.1.1.529 variant detected, Malaysians forbidden from travelling to Africa
The Ministry of Health has heightened the preventive measures and border control following the emergence of new Covid-19 variant, B.1.1.529, by now allowing Malaysian citizens to travel to several African countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe
