The Black Student Movement (BSM) is staging a sit-in at Rhodes University’s council chambers in Grahamstown. This was reportedly over the failure of transformation at the university, according to the SABC. The BSM has accused the university of not taking racism incidents seriously. Allegations of racism surfaced after a white[…]
About 20 people were injured when a number of grandstands collapsed at the Esselen Park Stadium in Worcester, Western Cape, during a sporting event on Saturday evening. ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said its team of paramedics, as well as other emergency services, responded to the scene where they found the[…]
Thousands of demonstrators have continued their protests in Kuala Lumpur for a second day to demand the resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal. The crowd of yellow-clad protesters, who slept on the streets near the city’s Independence Square, woke on Sunday to mass exercises and[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has reportedly executed at least 91 people across Syria within a period of one month, including 39 people from its own ranks. The executions were carried out over accusations of sorcery, sodomy, adultery, banditry, joining and cooperating with rival rebel[…]
An air strike by a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday, residents said. “The process of recovering the bodies is finished now. The corpses of 36 workers, many of them burnt or in pieces, were pulled out[…]
One child is challenging other children to help her change her community, one hungry tummy at a time. And all it takes to make a difference is a small portion of their pocket money. Stellenbosch teenager Madeleine Basson, 13, recently launched Grumbling Tummies, an organisation which aims to feed poor[…]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation admitted on Friday that a security audit had been conducted at its KwaZulu-Natal offices. “The process is a standard procedure to constantly identify the possible threats towards acts of terror, espionage and other related risks that have… the potential to impede the… running of the[…]
Former Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan is expected to be moved to An-Najah National University Hospital in Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, his father, Nasser al-Din Allan, told Ma’an Saturday. Muhammad Allan, 31, agreed to end a 66-day hunger strike on Aug. 20 when Israel’s top court suspended[…]
An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry. The verdict in a retrial was issued against Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalized Canadian who[…]
Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a foreign man on Saturday they said fitted the description of a suspect seen leaving a rucksack at the site of the Bangkok blast nearly two weeks ago. Police raided an apartment in a northern suburb of the capital on[…]
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