Human Rights Watch said Tuesday it has identified nearly 1,500 sites where the Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air attacks over the past year using barrel bombs and other improvised weapons that have killed or injured thousands of people. The human rights group accused President Bashar Assad of lying[…]
Cosatu on Tuesday called for the 2015/16 budget to implement radical economic transformation. “The second phase of transformations should be about radical economic transformation,” Congress of SA Trade Unions spokesman Patrick Craven said. “This calls for the implementation of the economic demands of the Freedom Charter which puts people at[…]
The case of 17 people accused of murdering six Kraaifontein men was postponed in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court, Cape Town, the Western Cape Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. “The case was postponed to Friday for a bail application,” spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said. On December 9, the bodies of six[…]
The body of a fisherman was retrieved off Elands Bay in the Western Cape after a boat capsized on Tuesday, the NSRI said. “The body of 30-year-old Cheslyn Africa, from St Helena Bay, was located and recovered today from the sea,” National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon said. Africa[…]
Government will “not do anything foolish” over land ownership to scare away foreign investors, Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said on Tuesday. Briefing journalists at Parliament on aspects of the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill, set to be processed by Parliament, he confirmed that future ownership of agricultural land by[…]
A CIA agent “desperate” to make contact with Hamas in Gaza pleaded for help from a South African spy in the summer of 2012, according to intelligence files leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. The US lists Hamas as a radical organisation and, officially at least, has no contact with[…]
Gunmen have kidnapped a French woman and her Yemeni driver in the centre of the capital, Sanaa, while she was heading to work, security sources and France’s foreign ministry have said. The unidentified gunmen intercepted the vehicle on 45th Street and led the women, who works for an international organisation,[…]
French President Francois Hollande will meet Tuesday with the heads of the country’s leading Jewish and Muslim organizations, the Elysee Palace said, in an attempt to subdue a public rift between the two factions. Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council[…]
Islamic State radicals have abducted at least 70 Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of villages in northeastern Syria, two activist groups said Tuesday. The Sunni rebels, who follow a radical interpretation of Islam, have repeatedly targeted religious and ethnic minorities in Syria and Iraq since seizing[…]
The community of Mitchell’s Plain said that they have yet to find a solution to their grievances with the informal dwellers in the Siqalo informal settlement. Speaking on behalf of the newly established committee, Pastor Frankiln Williams said that a meeting held this past Sunday didn’t yield as much successes[…]
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