Israel’s Jerusalem municipality reportedly approved permits for 566 new illegal Israeli settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, after the plans had been put on hold until after US President Donald Trump was sworn in. Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Meir Turjeman told AFP news agency that city officials approved[…]
Negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition groups are due to start in Kazakh capital Astana, as part of a Russian led initiative which also includes Turkey and Iran. The parties are trying to find common ground to stop the six-year-long bloody conflict in Syria. The talks on the reconciliation[…]
The Gambia’s ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh plundered the state coffers in his final weeks in power, stealing millions of dollars and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane, according to an aide to new president Adama Barrow. Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile[…]
In the wake of increased racist rhetoric appearing on social media platforms in South Africa, the recent surfacing of a Whatsapp voice note has called into question the role of schools in quelling racist comments and/or actions. In the voice note, with the piano in the background, one of the[…]
Yesterday, a picture of a women seated in a cage at the back of a bakkie surfaced on social media. While the picture stirred social media commentators, many voicing outrage at the incident, the Eastern Cape driver, Johan Erasmus, has since explained that the farm-worker, Linda Senekal, requested to sit[…]
More than a week after the beginning of term 7 900 pupils have not found places in schools in the Western Cape, according to Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schafer. Noxolo Ntshuntshe and Samkelo Mjambo are among the parents who have not been able to find places for their children[…]
The Ad Hoc Committee probing the affairs of the SABC will resume on Friday to continue with a second day of deliberations on its working document. The Committee adjourned before seven o’ clock Thursday night. It will continue to look at the observations and recommendations listed in the working document.[…]
Terror suspect twins Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie are expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court Friday morning. The twins were arrested in July during raids in Newclare and face three counts of contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act. According to their charge sheet,[…]
Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening steps to crack down on immigration, build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and roll back outgoing President Barack Obama’s policies. Trump, a Republican elected on Nov. 8[…]
Troops from a bloc of West African countries have entered Gambia in support of Adama Barrow, shortly after the new Gambian president called for international backing following his inauguration in neighbouring Senegal. Longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh, who came to power in a 1994 coup, has refused to step down despite[…]
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