Wits University Student Representative committee has warned that they will make the institution ungovernable until management accedes to their demands. The students embarked on a series of protests on Tuesday. Chaos erupted on Friday leading to students and Wits security officers hurling bricks at each other resulting in three officers being[…]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen “Community leadership have taken time out of their busy schedules to make the public aware that TotalEnergies is about to risk our oceans by trying to get a permit to drill for oil and gas offshore.” This is according to Green Connection Strategic Leader, Liz McDaid who[…]
INTERNATIONAL The UN’s top human rights body voted on Thursday to set up an independent investigation into Iran’s deadly repression of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council passed with 25 in favour, six against and 16 abstentions. Volker Turk, commissioner of the[…]
INTERNATIONAL Security forces shot dead at least three people in Iran‘s Kurdistan province on Saturday as protests continue over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, according to a rights group. Government forces “opened fire on protesters in the town of Divandarreh, killing at least three civilians”, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights,[…]
LOCAL Western Cape officials have raised concerns that increasingly violent demonstrations by the taxi industry in the province, is becoming life-threatening. At least seven suspects are expected in court on Monday, following renewed protests on Friday morning. Cape Town motorists were left infuriated, with many unable to reach their workplaces,[…]
INTERNATIONAL Qatar has deported dozens of workers who participated in a rare protest for unpaid and delayed wages owed to them by a company that Doha has awarded multi-million dollar contracts, a rights group and a government source said Tuesday. A government source told MEE that some protesters were deported[…]
LOCAL Several roads leading into Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, have been blocked off this morning due to a community protest against illegal mining in the area. The blockage follows the gang rape of eight women, who were part of a production crew, shooting a music video. They were working on[…]
By Tauhierah Salie Western Cape residents are encouraged to prepare for a legal, mass strike by COSATU on Thursday morning. Thousands of members are expected to take to the streets to demand government urgently tackle high crime and fuel prices in the province. Provincial spokesperson, Malvern de Bruyn, said its[…]
INTERNATIONAL Thousands of demonstrators opposed to Iraq’s powerful cleric, Moqtada Al-Sadr, staged a protest on Monday at the edge of Baghdad’s fortified government zone, where Sadr’s supporters were holding an open-ended occupation of Iraq’s Parliament, Reuters reports. The rival Shia Muslim groups are affiliated with heavily armed militias, raising fears of clashes as[…]
INTERNATIONAL Hundreds of protesters in Sudan‘s capital, Khartoum, took to the streets for a fourth day in a row, after at least 10 people were killed by security forces during rallies earlier this week. A rally on Sunday against the military takeover led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last October[…]
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