Millions of Muslims from around the world as well as other parts of the Kingdom are converging on the Grand Mosque in Makkah to perform Umrah and take part in special prayers in the final phase of Ramadan, which is considered to include the holiest days of the fasting month.[…]
The Department of Transport has admitted to registering more than 2,000 dangerous “pseudo-Quantums” for use on the country’s roads, despite warnings from the manufacturer that they were unsafe for human transport. The admission was made during a hearing by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela into the conversion of panel vans into[…]
A police informant who wanted to fight crime claims he is now living on the streets and fearing for his life after his identity was revealed during a drug raid in Cape Town. The man told News24 he regretted helping the police after they did little to keep his identity[…]
Sodwana Bay racist Andre Slade was unrepentant when senior ANC KwaZulu-Natal leaders and hundreds of their supporters gathered to protest at his property against his anti-black remarks. Unfazed, Slade insisted that black people were sub-humans and whites were royalty, and said the Bible was the bedrock for his beliefs. Slade’s[…]
There is still mixed reaction to the R140 billion Wescape mega-city being planned near Melkbosstrand, although some former opponents have done an about-turn. Len Swimmer, chairman of the Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance, said he had initially been opposed to the development, but “had gone in the opposite direction”. There[…]
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the United Nations General Assembly to “immediately suspend” Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council because of numerous serious human rights violations. “Saudi Arabia has committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its time as a Council member,[…]
Data recovered from one of the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month showed smoke alarms had sounded on board, while soot was found on the wreckage, an Egyptian-led investigative committee has said. Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo when it crashed in the[…]
Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as the 16th president of the Philippines in front of an audience of 600 guests and millions more watching on television and online, crowing a rise from little-known mayor to leader of a huge nation. His youngest child by his side holding the family[…]
The United Nations Security Council agreed on Wednesday to add just over 2,500 peacekeepers to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been hit by a series of deadly attacks and has become the deadliest place to serve for U.N. peacekeepers. The French-drafted resolution, which was approved unanimously by[…]
This is a response by Fazela Mahomed to an article on TimesLIVE by Jan Jan Joubert, published on 29 June 2016. On the 27 June 2016 Jan Jan Joubert wrote on TimesLIVE in an article headlined “Parliament’s ethics commissar resigns” that I had resigned following a court judgement from the Western[…]
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