Politicians’ children should not depend on their name to get ahead in life, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. “I usually give [my children] a long lecture which says there is no qualification which is called Mantashe,” he told reporters in Johannesburg. “If you want to survive in[…]
Former president FW de Klerk on Tuesday said the only way the fighting in the Middle East could stop was through dialogue. “What is happening there is tragic. I believe that the only way out of it is through negotiations,” he said at the Maropeng Cradle of Humankind World Heritage[…]
Seeking to quell the fears of consumers across the country, the Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman (CGCSA) has noted there are number of alternatives for consumers seeking to take action against suppliers over poor services and defective goods. Advocate Neville Melville, said the first and most sensible point of action[…]
The PLO has said that all Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have united to offer a 24-hour ceasefire in Gaza, a move Hamas however insisted must be guaranteed by Israel for it to work. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the PLO executive committee, said on Tuesday that[…]
Dozens of displaced Gaza families flooded into a UN school early Tuesday after Israel warned them to leave their homes, struggling to set up camp in a cramped, dirty courtyard. Hundreds of homeless Gazans were already living there, with this school in the northern town of Jabaliya packed to overflowing.[…]
Intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine has killed at least 22 civilians, local officials say, as Ukraine presses an offensive to close in on the separatists. Ukrainian forces have been pushing rebel units back towards their two main urban strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk and[…]
The strike in the metals and engineering sector ended on Monday, after both the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and Solidarity accepted a wage offer. “We are pleased to inform the public and the country at large that the latest offer is a product of sweat and bitter[…]
An inquiry into the removal of people from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town will resume its public hearings on Tuesday. The inquiry, appointed by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, will move to Nomzamo on Tuesday for a third round of public hearings. Residents directly affected by the SA National Roads[…]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Tuesday accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza and called on the Islamic world to arm Palestinians fighting “the Zionist regime”. In a speech marking the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, Khamenei said Israel was acting like a “rabid dog” and “a wild wolf”[…]
France has said it is ready to welcome Christians fleeing the area of Iraq controlled by Islamic State (IS) fighters, saying it is “outraged” by their persecution. Islamic State fighters seized large swaths of northern Iraq last month, prompting hundreds of Christian families in Mosul to flee a city which[…]
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