Prominent University of Johanesburg academic and anti-apartheid activist Professor Farid Esack has been banned from speaking on the topic of Palestine by various French Universities. Professor Esack, who heads UJ’s Religious Studies department, was due to start a French speaking tour on Thursday night on the topic of Palestine as[…]
A South African-based scholar of Egyptian descent has entered his 16th week in detention at a notorious Cairo prison, following his arrest by Egyptian national security at the Cairo International Airport. Sheikh Abdul Salam Jad Bassiouni, 65, has been held at the Torah prison without charge since December 2014, with[…]
The Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement has vowed to turn Cape Town’s central business district into chaos the next time the group protests against the Western Cape government. “We will bring 300 000 people to the city centre, and make sure that nothing can move within it,” said Ses’khona leader Andile[…]
Residents of Eastridge in Mitchells Plain have reported a surge in gang violence and drug abuse in the area of late. Some community members say they fear walking in the street and even having to go to the shop to buy bread has become dangerous. Police have recently said three[…]
The Office of the Public Protector (OPP) is to act on a complaint from the City of Cape Town in relation to minstrel funding, after allegations of mismanagement of funds. The complaint relates to funding dispersed to the Cape Minstrel Carnival Association by the National Lotteries Distribution Trust, which the[…]
Convicted killer Thandi Maqubela will be sentenced in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, the SABC reported. During closing arguments in sentencing proceedings on Thursday, the State asked the court to hand down a long sentence, the national broadcaster reported. Maqubela’s husband, acting judge Patrick Maqubela, who worked in[…]
It was a sigh of relief for the 22 aspiring students who received bursaries in the 2015 VOC Bursary Project handed over at Burnley Lodge on Wednesday night. The students, most of them first years, are studying in a range of fields – from Biotechnology and law, to dentistry and[…]
Two more SABC board members were removed on Thursday, the public broadcaster said. “The SABC board of directors today [Thursday] convened a meeting to conclude the business of the special board meeting that was adjourned on March 12,” the broadcaster said in a statement. The meeting dealt the alleged fraudulent[…]
The presidency on Thursday said it would not entertain what it called rumours and gossip about operations at Eskom. “President Jacob Zuma has been kept fully briefed about the developments at Eskom and the attempts being made by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Ms Lynne Brown and the board to[…]
Saudi air strikes on Shia rebels in Yemen have triggered a furious reaction from regional rival Iran, with top officials warning that military action could spill into other countries. Saudi Arabia said that a coalition consisting of 10 countries, including members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), had begun air[…]
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