An unlikely collaboration has been formed between the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), in a bid to tackle gang violence and drug abuse across the city. The United Front Against Gangsterism and Drugs (UFAGAD), will seek to mobilize various other NGO’s, civil societies, and[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters will go to court to oppose looming suspension from Parliament for disrupting presidential question time last week, party leader Julius Malema said on Thursday. All 25 EFF MPs in the National Assembly were responding to Speaker Baleka Mbete’s letters of warning with help from lawyers and[…]
The leaking of confidential information by a senior politician is a big problem, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Thursday. “The leaking and publishing of confidential information… is a problem,” she told reporters in Pretoria. But when it was a senior politician, “this is an even bigger problem”, she said.[…]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now. A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency also assumes that in many hard-hit areas, the actual number of[…]
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will focus on the southern part of the existing search zone after a new clue to the plane’s possible location emerged, Australia has said. Fresh information suggested the jet “may have turned south” earlier than thought, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said.[…]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey’s 12th president at a ceremony attended by more than 90 international leaders and politicians in parliament on Thursday, cementing his position as the country’s most powerful modern leader. “In my capacity as President of the Republic, I swear upon my honor and[…]
“She will call me Daddy and Mummy,” insisted 11-year-old Amir Hamad, cradling his infant sister in his arms after the Gaza war left him and his four siblings orphans. Fifty days of bloody fighting in and around the wartorn Gaza Strip has cost the lives of nearly 500 children, but[…]
The highly anticipated story of leading SA humanitarian organsation Gift of the Givers has finally been encapsulated in a book. Written by VOC’s very own Shafiq Morton, Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A Mercy to All tells the story of the establishment of South Africa’s only home-grown[…]
The Supreme Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed President Jacob Zuma’s application to prevent the release of the so-called “Spy Tapes”. Within five days, the National Prosecuting Authority must comply with the previous court order, in an application brought by the Democratic Alliance (DA), to release the tapes. The actual[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat That it was able to withstand a nuclear power whose military is equipped with the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction during an intense 50 day period of carpet bombings, speaks to the enormity of its victory. The asymmetrical conditions that favoured Israel included the fact[…]
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