The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Wednesday ordered the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) to repay entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth R250 million plus interest in a case about exchange controls. In a statement on his website, Shuttleworth pledged to put the money, which must be repaid with interest, into a trust[…]
Nehawu on Wednesday called for public service wage negotiations to be reopened. “The three-year agreement we signed in 2012 is coming to an end in March 2015, hence we have reopened the negotiations at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council,” the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) said[…]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille is set to make an announcement on the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates amid reports on Wednesday that it had been cancelled. Her office issued an advisory stating an “important announcement” would be made at the civic centre on Thursday afternoon. The[…]
No agreement has been entered into with Russia for the construction of nuclear power plants, the energy department said on Wednesday. The document recently signed between South Africa and Russia was an inter-governmental agreement — one of six sought from Russia and five other countries to determine which technologies suited[…]
Twin bombings have killed at least 17 people, including 10 children, near a school in the government-controlled area of central Syria. A Syrian pro-government channel aired on Wednesday a brief footage of the aftermath, showing distraught parents rushing about frantically looking for their children, amid strewn schoolbags and blood stains[…]
The prosecution of former Guantánamo inmate Moazzam Begg has dramatically collapsed after the police and crown prosecutors were handed secret intelligence material which undermined the terrorism case against him. Five days before Begg was due to go on trial on a string of terrorism charges, prosecutors announced at the Old[…]
A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials have announced. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation and that the hospital[…]
As Muslims around the world mark the month of Dhul Hijjah, one of the most sacred months of the Islamic year, all roads lead to the holy cities in the Saudi Kingdom for the annual haj pilgrimage on Thursday. Millions of pilgrims will don the ihram on the eighth day[…]
The newly expanded Jamarat bridge in Mina can accommodate 500,000 pilgrims per hour during the Haj season, said Prince Mansour bin Miteb, minister of municipal and rural affairs. “The streets leading to Jamrat, however, cannot hold these many pilgrims. As a result, only 300,000 pilgrims can use the bridge per[…]
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance will be sending out 3,250,000 short electronic messages in 32 languages to guide pilgrims on the proper way to perform Haj rituals and educate them about religious regulations of Haj and Umrah. Talal Bin Ahmed Al-Aqeel, the Islamic Affairs minister consultant[…]
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