Woman who reported fake hijacking on Twitter is released on bail 24 May 2021 Phindile Kunene, who said on Twitter that she had been hijacked, launching a police search, has been released on bail after being arrested last Thursday. Stock photo. Image: STOCKSTUDIO44/123RF
A 29-year-old woman who took to social media to post about being kidnapped and hijacked has been released on R2,000 bail.
Phindile Kunene appeared briefly in the Protea magistrate s court on Monday charged with contravention of section 9 of the Commissioners of Oath Act making a false statement under oath.
Last week, Kunene claimed she had been hijacked and kidnapped, prompting a multidisciplinary police and emergency service search. Kunene, who was posting updates on social media, claimed she was texting from the boot of the car, where her hijackers had locked her, and was being taken to an unknown location.
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(Reuters) - Flying at Mach 3 and reaching more than 55 miles above the Earth Saturday, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson s private spaceship company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico.
This is a milestone in Branson s near two-decades effort to create a commercial spaceline to take paying customers into outer space.
Touted as the first human spaceflight from the state, Branson s SpaceShipTwo craft lifted off in the desert about 45 miles northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 10:35 a.m.
About 50 minutes later, traveling at more than 2,300 miles an hour, it reached a height NASA recognizes as space and attained suborbital flight status.
Breeze Airways
Breeze Airways is finally taking to the skies with its first flight scheduled for May 27.
The airline s bases will be in Tampa, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Norfolk, Virginia; and Charleston, South Carolina.
Flights will be mostly bare bones with Breeze charging extra for baggage and seat assignments.
America has yet another brand new airline.
JetBlue founder David Neeleman has taken the wraps off of his fifth airline venture after more than a year of waiting since it was first announced. Breeze Airways will finally start flights on May 27 and aims to put a seriously nice and tech-focused spin on ultra-low-cost flying just in time for the summer travel season.
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United Airlines and Delta Air Lines are making their top flyers earn elite status this year.
But both are making it easier to reach the top levels of their frequent flyer programs.
Average travelers now have a better chance at getting status, and the perks that come with it.
The upper echelons of airline frequent flyer programs have historically been reserved for airlines most frequent flyers and top spenders. But airlines, eager to get their top flyers back in the air, are making it easier for more travelers to reach the coveted levels of status, and all the perks that come with it.