The annual Cape Town minstrels parade has a role to play in the construction of a united society, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Saturday. “The minstrels have a significant role to play in the construction of a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society. The success of[…]
Eskom on Sunday said it hoped that it would not need to implement load shedding in the upcoming week. “For now, our aspiration is not to have load shedding at all [for the week ahead],” said Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. However, he warned, that the possibility could not be ruled[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released about 200 mostly elderly members of northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority who had been held for months. The Yazidis were freed on the frontline southwest of the city of Kirkuk on Saturday and met by Kurdish Peshmerga forces who brought[…]
A senior Afghan army general has told Al Jazeera that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been active in Afghanistan. A Ministry of Interior source also confirmed ISIL’s existence in the country. On Sunday, Lieutenant-General Murad Ali Murad, commander of Afghan army’s ground forces, told[…]
The son of a slain Hezbollah military leader has been killled in an Israeli air attack in the Syrian province of Quneitra, according to the Lebanese Shia group. An Israeli helicopter fired missiles on Sunday at Jihad Mughniyeh’s car in Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a Hezbollah statement said.[…]
The abaThembu royal family on Friday said all decisions taken by former president Nelson Mandela must be respected, broadcaster eNCA reported. “It’s a family issue and we have taken a view which says we cannot change the decisions of the late man,” said Chief Ngangomhlaba Matanzima, chairman of the Eastern[…]
One person has died and two others were injured when a train collided with a car at a level crossing in Stellenbosch, Metrorail said on Saturday. All three were from the car, said spokeswoman Riana Scott. “We can confirm a collision between a train and a vehicle this morning [Saturday][…]
The Commission for Gender Equality has warned President Jacob Zuma to watch what he says when speaking about women, Beeld reported on Saturday. “We admonished him to be more careful in the future,” commission chairman Mfanozelwe Shozi was quoted as saying. In August 2012, the commission received a sexism complaint[…]
Gunmen abducted the chief of staff to Yemen’s president early Saturday in the center of the capital, Sanaa, security officials said, starkly highlighting the unrest plaguing the Arab world’s poorest country. The kidnapping of Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak comes as Yemen remains gripped by Shiite Houthi rebels and battered by[…]
Afghan officials say that security forces have arrested five people suspected of being involved in a massacre last month that saw extremists attack a military school in Pakistan, killing 148 people, most of them children. The two officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that the men, all Afghan nationals,[…]
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