SADC special summit on Mozambique to begin

An extraordinary SADC Summit will be held on Tuesday with a special focus on the Mozambique crisis.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will chair the meeting in Pretoria.

The SANDF was deployed to Mozambique earlier this year to help fight terror threats in the country’s north.

The total cost of the deployment is over R980-million.

The summit will also look at the way forward as the SANDF deployment in the Cabo Delgado province is ending on the fifteenth of October.

5 October also marks four years since militant groups and Mozambican security forces first clashed.

Hundreds of people have been killed since.

Source: AFP

In other news – Idols SA contestant sentenced to 10 years in jail

A one-time Idols hopeful has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for trafficking drugs from Brazil into SA. Ibrahim Cook, who in 2014 won a golden ticket twice in the television contest to determine the best young singer in SA, was sentenced in the Verulam magistrate’s court last Thursday.

At the time Cook, who went by the names “Gordon Jordaan” and “Gordan Cook”, was described by Idols as the show’s “most cheerful contestant”. Learn More