Twenty-two aspiring students will be receiving R10 000 towards their tertiary education this year as part of the VOC Bursary Fund. In a bid to plough back into the community which it serves, the VOC Bursary Fund has managed to this year, raise over R200 000 to invest in within[…]
As the debate surrounding the Cecil John Rhodes statue at University of Cape Town (UCT) heats up, a research fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation and former Rhodes scholarship recipient has recommended the statue be reclaimed, and made more reflective of the controversial figure’s history. The statue, the subject of[…]
The portfolio committee on police, along with different stakeholders in the firearms sector are gathering this week in Parliament to discuss potential amendments to the country’s current firearms legislation. This comes amidst an increase in both legal and illegal firearms in the public sphere, and the need for better regulations[…]
Commuters in cities across the United States were surprised this month to find their daily trips to work adorned with posters and banners calling on their government to end military support to Israel. The posters were rolled out in seven cities for the entire month of March, and are part[…]
On a small alley in Jerusalem’s Old City, a Palestinian family is fighting both Israeli government and Jewish settler pressure to stay in a home they have lived in more than half a century. After a day of fighting with police and Jewish settlers bent on kicking them out of[…]
OPINION by Aayesha Soni – A story regarding the attack of an author, Zainub Dala, supposedly inspired by her public lauding of Salman Rushdie has been making the rounds. I am stunned a story loaded with so many insinuations and extrapolations of the facts has even been published. It most[…]
Stage two rolling blackouts were scheduled for Wednesday, Eskom said. “Eskom will implement stage two load shedding from 4pm today, which is likely to continue until 10pm this evening,” the power utility said in a statement. “This is due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently[…]
Manufacturing is the least transformed sector of the economy, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. “More factories must be owned by black people. It is not racism in reverse, it is eradicating racism,” he told a black industrialists’ conference in Midrand. Political liberation was incomplete without economic liberation, he said.[…]
Eskom board chairman Zola Tsotsi has not been removed, the power utility said on Wednesday. Eskom media desk was responding to questions on a report that the four executives, suspended earlier this month, were not suspended because they initiated an audit of the parastatal’s tender processes. “No, the chairman was[…]
Helicopter operations have resumed over mountainsides in the French Alps where a German airliner crashed, killing all 150 people on board. Under overcast skies, with temperatures just above freezing, helicopters resumed flights on Wednesday over a widely scattered debris field. The Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings, a budget subsidiary of[…]
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