The Pretoria High Court is expected to deliver its judgment on the case in which 19 Gupta-linked companies want to compel the Bank of Baroda to continue offering services to them on Monday. The Indian state-owned international bank has already indicated that it wants to close its South African branch.[…]
Sierra Leone’s presidential election results were too close to call after three quarters of the votes had been counted on Sunday, with the two frontrunners neck-and-neck, making a second round highly likely. The main opposition leader Julius Maada Bio, candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, took a slight lead[…]
At least 42 people have been killed in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta as government forces continue to launch air strikes on the rebel-held enclave while edging closer to its central towns. Activists in Douma, one of the main urban centres, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Syrian jets have “not stopped[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) plan to launch a class action case against food giant Tiger Brands for the company’s alleged involvement in the Listeriosis crisis. The Department of Health identified that an Enterprise food production facility in Polokwane, Limpopo, as the source of the listeriosis outbreak in South Africa.[…]
By Najma Bibi Noor Mahomed Muslim consumers who enjoy the Joubert & Monty Biltong (J&M) brand of biltong should be aware that all its stores are not completely halal certified, except for two branches in Cape Town. Recently a VOC listener expressed concern around their halal status after visiting a[…]
Islamic organisations have urged Muslims to register to vote this weekend ahead of the 2019 national elections. Despite its best efforts to collect the addresses of voters, the electoral commission does not have addresses for 2.8 million voters. The registration drive takes place on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11 March[…]
At least seven people have been killed and seven others wounded after a suicide attack near a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said. “In the explosion seven were martyred and seven were wounded,” Najib Danish, the interior ministry spokesman, wrote on Facebook after the attack on Friday.[…]
Sri Lankan Muslims say they fear being attacked during Friday prayers by Sinhalese Buddhists, amid accusations that security forces are failing to take action against marauding mobs. Despite a state of emergency and a curfew to curtail violence that broke out last weekend between Muslims and Buddhists in the central[…]
An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced 25 journalists to prison terms of up to seven-and-a half years over links to a group that Turkey blames for the 2016 failed coup, in a mass trial of media staff detained after the putsch bid. Twenty-three of the journalists were convicted of membership[…]
Vicki Momberg, the former real estate agent whose racist rant towards a black police officer was caught on camera, is expected to be sentenced in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Momberg was found guilty of four counts of crimen injuria on November 3 following her rant aimed at Constable[…]
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