The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement of South Africa aims says it will be “the bigger person” in the ongoing conflict between the group and Woolworths South Africa. This, according to spokesperson Mohammed Desai, who was present when the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday ordered the BDS and Woolworths[…]
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the State Security department have both sought to play down speculation that more than 100 South African nationals are currently fighting in Syria as recruits for the radical Islamic State (IS) group. The allegations, emanating from reports in the Sunday Independent[…]
A Sunday Independent report has stoked much debate in recent days, after suggestions that 140 South Africans are currently fighting as part of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, and that the group is actively recruiting new fighters in the country. Sunday’s article further alleges that three South[…]
Pro-Palestine activists have been banned from protesting in Woolworths stores, the High Court in Johannesburg ruled on Tuesday. The order prevents members of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions SA (BDS SA) from organising, co-ordinating or encouraging any form of protest action in the stores. It also orders representatives of the two[…]
Eskom and South Africa must brace themselves for tough measures in order to make the power supply sustainable, Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said on Tuesday. “We have to organise the country to attack these problems… Failure is not an option,” she said at Eskom’s Megawatt Park in Johannesburg. Eskom[…]
The strike at the SA Post Office (Sapo) has been suspended, the Communication Workers Union announced on Tuesday. “Over the past weekend CWU engaged with workers through our regional and local leadership with workers in Sapo. After a number of considerations, an overwhelming number of workers resolved on suspending the[…]
Kidnapped South African Pierre Korkie was not among the hostages freed by Yemeni troops, the Gift of the Givers said on Tuesday. “We have received confirmation from credible sources that the hostage freed is not Pierre but an American citizen who is now already in the US Embassy,” Gift of[…]
Violence that erupted in Ferguson after a US grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black teenager was the “worst” since August, when the unrest first started, police said on Tuesday. “What I’ve seen tonight is probably much worse than the[…]
Yemeni security forces have freed seven Yemeni hostages and a foreigner in a raid in which seven al-Qaeda kidnappers were also killed, the country’s supreme security committee said. The committee did not disclose the nationality of the foreign hostage, but a Yemeni government source said he was a US military[…]
Indian-administered Kashmir headed to the polls under tight security with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party eyeing power for the first time in the disputed Muslim-majority region. More than one million residents are eligible to vote on Monday in the first stage of staggered elections in the Himalayan region,[…]
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