The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) will re-launch its application at the Western Cape High Court in March to push President Jacob Zuma to enact the Muslim Marriage Bill into law. The bill has divided Muslim opinion and has been fiercely contested by individuals and organisations in South Africa. This has[…]
In a recent opinion piece, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Social Sciences research fellow Imraan Buccus says apartheid era president FW de Klerk has been erroneously painted to be a forward thinking leader. Twenty five years after he made his famous speech unbanning liberation movements like the African National Congress and[…]
An Egyptian court on Monday condemned 183 men to hang for the lynchings of 11 police officers by rioters in August 2013. The condemned were found guilty of an attack on a police station on the western outskirts of Cairo in apparent retaliation for the deadly dispersal by police of[…]
Unidentified attackers threw petrol bombs on a packed passenger bus, leaving at least seven people dead and 16 others injured early Tuesday amid a nationwide general strike enforced by an opposition alliance calling for new elections in Bangladesh. Local police chief Uttam Chakrabarty said the pre-dawn attack took place in[…]
Canada’s foreign minister said Monday the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy from a prison in Egypt is “imminent.” Fahmy, a dual Egyptian-Canadian citizen, has relinquished his Egyptian citizenship as prerequisite to his deportation. Foreign Minister John Baird spoke to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. a day after Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste[…]
The SA Human Rights Commission on Monday called on the government to act on the “sporadic attacks” on immigrants and the looting of their businesses across the country. The SAHRC said it had visited some of the communities affected by the attacks. “We remain concerned at the attacks which have[…]
The body of a missing five-year-old girl Kaden Williams was found in bushes in Bredasdorp on Monday afternoon, Western Cape police said. “The death of a five-year-old girl is being investigated after her body was found this afternoon in a bushy area in Bredasdorp,” said Lt-Col Andrè Traut. The girl[…]
In 10 days, seven hours and 39 minutes the EFF will hold President Jacob Zuma accountable to the country for the upgrades to his home at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal. This is according to a “Sona countdown Zuma #paybackthemoney” clock on its website. Economic Freedom Fighters national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said[…]
A vaccine against the Ebola virus about to be tested on 30,000 people in West Africa is safe, but has yet to prove its efficacy. It sailed through clinical trials in Britain, the United States, Switzerland and Mali with around 200 healthy volunteers. Findings published in New England Journal of[…]
In the latest national #BoycottWoolworths campaign, radio journalist Faizel Patel from Radio Islam, was ordered by members of the tactical response unit of the South African police service, to delete pictures that he had taken at the Boycott Woolworths protest, which took place at the Trade Route Mall in Lenasia[…]
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