Internationally recognised as an advocate for the rights of Palestinians, Professor Farid Esack says an academic petition calling for French universities to stop a ban on his lecture has had a major impact. Three hundred global academics have signed a petition demanding that French universities not succumb to pressure from[…]
The Boland Summer Festival has become a tourist attraction for the Drakenstein and is a key business opportunity for small businesses in the area. So said Moutie Richards of the Paarl Muslim Jamaah, during the official opening ceremony on Saturday evening, which saw throngs of people packed at the main[…]
A new video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows its fighters cutting off the heads of eight men said to be Shiite Muslims. The video posted on social media said the men were beheaded in the central Syrian province of Hama. The video could not be immediately[…]
Egypt’s top prosecutor on Sunday named 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group’s leader and his deputy, as terrorists in the first implementation of an anti-terror law passed earlier this year. In a statement, chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat said the decision follows a February court ruling that convicted Brotherhood leader[…]
Tunisian security forces decimated the leadership of a Tunisian jihadi group linked to al-Qaida’s North African branch, including the man identified as the “operational chief” of the attack this month on the National Bardo Museum that killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists, the interior minister said Sunday. Najem Gharsalli said[…]
Voting in Nigeria’s elections continued in certain areas on Sunday after technical problems prevented some people from casting their ballots on Saturday and despite extremist violence in the northeast and protests in the south. Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked polling stations and destroyed election material in two northeastern towns. Fleeing residents[…]
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Sunday that he is not resigning from the federation. “This is a deliberate act of defiance on my part, even if in the end it turns out to be symbolic,” he told reporters at a briefing in Johannesburg. “It sends a message to[…]
The Congress of SA Trade Unions has been unable to function as an independent, democratic trade union federation, Numsa deputy secretary general Karl Cloete said on Sunday. “Cosatu over the past two years has been unable to function as a democratic, worker-controlled and militant federation,” Cloete said following a media[…]
At no point has President Jacob Zuma’s family used a SA Air Force helicopter for transport, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) said on Sunday. “The SANDF rejects these spurious allegations and places on record that at no point has the SA Air Force helicopter been used to transport family[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa must provide the country and Parliament with a comprehensive report on the state of Eskom, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. DA Parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said in a statement he had written to Ramaphosa requesting that Parliament be provided with an accurate comprehensive report on[…]
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