After six years, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the Western Cape elected a new leadership on Sunday. Former ANCYL WC Convenor, Muhammed Khaled Sayed has now been voted in to lead the youth league into effectively reinstating the organisation within the local community. Six years ago, the[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has announced an investment of R1.2bn into E-learning, with the intention of providing better access to information for students and schools across the province. The funds will largely be ploughed into the setting up, as well as upgrading of internet and wireless network facilities[…]
As the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) battles severe funding shortages which have in turn led to job cuts, the organization is facing increased calls for its de-registration. Leading these calls has been the Free State branch of the ANCYL, but whilst political organizations have been quick to turn on the[…]
Iran’s efforts to use official and unofficial channels in South Africa to beat western-imposed sanctions have raised concerns within South African security services, according to leaked intelligence documents obtained by Al Jazeera. The Spy Cables provide a detailed account of Tehran allegedly using secret front companies, as well as open[…]
The Chamber of Mines on Monday applauded the “courageous” role played by rescue services in the evacuation of 486 miners during an underground fire at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine. “Mine Rescue Services provides critical support to the industry and we wish to send our heartfelt gratitude to the men and[…]
The South African Security Agency (SSA) allegedly spied on Iran, Al-Jazeera reported on its website. According to the report, Al-Jazeera was in possession of documents –mainly exchanges between the SSA and its counterparts around the world — showing South Africa was monitoring Iranian agents. Al-Jazeera stated that the South African[…]
Six years after convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik was released on medical parole, apparently terminally ill, he has applied for ordinary parole, Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha said on Monday. The department had received correspondence from the medical parole advisory board in which “offender Shaik” had asked for his[…]
Less than a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2012 warning to the UN General Assembly that Iran was 70 percent of the way to completing its “plans to build a nuclear weapon”, Israel’s intelligence service believed that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons”. A secret[…]
Yemen’s deposed president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has withdrawn his resignation and has been meeting with senior security advisers and provincial governors in his hometown, Aden. A member of parliament said Hadi had submitted a letter to the assembly on Monday, withdrawing his resignation as the country’s president, which he had[…]
The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the cease-fire in Ukraine has “very significantly” lowered the level of military exchanges between government and separatist forces, but violations are still taking place. Lamberto Zannier told a group of reporters Monday that there have been a number[…]
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