The South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) will now reassess its haj accreditation list, after 1379 of the 2000 accredited prospective pilgrims indicated their acceptance before Monday’s cut-off date. The remaining 621 either opted out, or failed to notify Sahuc within the allotted period. Despite a slow uptake upon[…]
Operators are reeling in umrah pilgrims intending to make the pilgrimage to the holy Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the month of Ramadan, by offering packages for a 30 day stay. However, the South African Travel and Haj Operators Association (Sathoa) says the Saudi Hajj Ministry has only allocated 15[…]
Some 50 South Africans are currently in quake-devastated Nepal but this figure may increase as the Department of International Relations (DIRCO) works to account for more SA citizens. “We don’t have a specific figure because information is difficult with people in Nepal due to the breakdown in communication,” said DIRCO[…]
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters on Tuesday called for answers into the cause of the train crash in Johannesburg that killed a woman Metrorail employee. “As government… we need Prasa to give answers as to how a moving train can crash into a stationary one,” she told reporters at the Denver[…]
With little more than nine days before the VOC Festival 2015 kicks off, festival coordinators have promised a weekend full of excitement that will cater to Capetonians young and old. After a brief hiatus in 2014, the festival has returned this year with the promise of being the biggest yet.[…]
Five hundred Malawian nationals are expected to be repatriated to their home country from three transit camps in Durban on Tuesday. Doctors without Borders spokesperson Kate Ribet said that a fleet of 22 buses will depart from the three camps on Tuesday morning, the single largest repatriation effort to date[…]
Fifteen people were injured on Tuesday after a taxi rolled down an embankment on Baden Powell Drive in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said. ER24 paramedics, along with Metro services, arrived on the scene and found the taxi lying on the side of the road. On[…]
The names of the seven people killed during xenophobic violence which erupted in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in the past weeks, were released by the inter-ministerial committee on migration on Tuesday. Four foreign nationals and three South Africans were identified. They are: – Marcus Natas, from Ethiopia, who was[…]
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is deteriorating, relief officials say, amid continued clashes and air raids targeting Houthi fighters. Weapons depots used by the Houthis in the capital Sanaa were among the targets hit on Tuesday, as well as the home of a senior leader of the group, sources told[…]
Saudi Arabia says it has arrested 93 people, including 65 Saudi nationals, on suspicion of belonging to the armed group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The kingdom’s official Saudi Press news agency said on Tuesday that it foiled had several plots across the country, including an[…]
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