Police in New Delhi have obtained a court injunction to block the broadcast in India of an interview with a convicted gang-rapist, police officials said Wednesday. In the interview, Mukesh Singh, who was convicted of gang-raping a 23-year-old female student on a bus in New Delhi in December 2012, says[…]
Tehran has called the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the US Congress on Iran’s nuclear talks deceitful and a desperate attempt to impose an irrational agenda. In his speech to Congress, Netanyahu said that the world must stand together to stop Iran from gaining access to a[…]
Marli van Breda, the young survivor of the Van Zalze axe murders, knows that her parents and oldest brother “are in heaven”, Beeld reported on Wednesday. “She misses her family a lot,” said a family statement issued on Tuesday. They said she “looks very good and the wounds have almost[…]
Muslims in Cape Town are rallying behind the city’s heroic fire-fighters, by means of prayer and even generous food donations. The fire in the southern part of the peninsula has destroyed almost 3000 hectares of land, causing immense damage to properties, wildlife and agriculture. Fire-fighters, pushing 18 hour shifts are[…]
A 21 year old man is set to appear in the Mitchell’s plain magistrate’s court on Wednesday, following the murder of his 61 year old mother in Tafelsig on Sunday evening. The accused allegedly killed his mother and disposed of her remains in the refuse bin. The murder has sparked[…]
There is much to be done to conscientious South Africa’s Christian community on the realities of life in occupied Palestine. So says Kairos South Africa member and activist Marthie Momberg, who says the organisation’s aim during this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is to create greater awareness among Christians on[…]
Energy Minister, Tina Joemat-Petterson is set to face court action at the hands of environmental awareness group, Greenpeace, who on Monday filed a case at the Pretoria High Court in a bid to halt the country’s proposed nuclear expansion project. The NGO wants the minister to adhere to sections 29[…]
With child victims of rape and sexual assault often experiencing major difficulties in finding the confidence to testify against alleged perpetrators, it has become an all too common occurrence to see such cases dropped. As such, local child protection NGO, Childline SA has called for better court preparation for victims[…]
VOC News has learned that a young Muslim woman from Port Elizabeth was intercepted at the local airport on Saturday evening, while attempting to depart the country for Turkey to join the radical Islamic State group. According to Attorney Zehir Omar, the young woman was stopped by family members at[…]
OPINION by Marwan Bishara- The political rift between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become evermore personal with the latter’s visit to Washington this week. But behind the personal and the political spat lies a strategic difference with dangerous implications for the Middle East, indeed[…]
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