A group calling itself Springbok Supporters for Transformation plans to start a radical programme of mass action that will include the withdrawal of funding and sponsorships for the national team. Lead by trade federation Cosatu, they have vowed that should the Springbok World Cup squad announcement on Friday fail to[…]
Over the past few weeks the Imizamo Yethu community in Hout Bay has been plagued by an upsurge in violence where several murders have already been reported over the past few weeks. Mzi Nyaki from the SA National Civic Organisation (Sanco) says that things are improving however the situation is[…]
With the aim of motivating listeners through positive and inspirational on-air content, VOC will next week launch a new pre-dawn magazine show that will hopefully make early mornings a bit easier to bear. AM Inspirations, as the programme has been christened, will broadcast every weekday between 5am and 6:30am, preceding[…]
With much of the world focusing on the Islamic State (IS) and its offensive on Kobane, very little is known about the Kurdish people, who call the Syrian-Turkish border town home. The Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East and Central Asia. The Kurdish question is a term[…]
“We used to be called the Department of Horror Affairs,” said Mayihlome Tshwete, spokesperson for the Department of Home Affairs. Home Affairs is the only government department that deals with every single South African citizen – as well as millions of foreigners who enter and exit the country annually. Not[…]
The High Court in Johannesburg has set aside the decision by Wits University to suspend seven students, including six EFF-affiliated students, from the university. “The decision by the university to suspend the applicants is set aside,” Judge Motsamai Makume said on Thursday. He said the students should be allowed access[…]
Sanral Chief Executive Officer Nazir Alli wrote to the city to seek a “win-win solution” and avoid legal action over tolling, but at the same time he said tolls were the only way to fund a project to upgrade roads. This emerged from correspondence between mayor Patricia de Lille and[…]
As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked lorry in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border on Thursday, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discovery had shaken European leaders attending a Balkans summit. Police made the grisly discovery in the 7.5-tonne lorry stopped on the A4[…]
Saudi Arabian troops have crossed into northern Yemen for the first time since the conflict with Houthi rebels began in March. Footage published on Wednesday showed soldiers taking positions in a mountainous area overlooking the southern Saudi province of Jizan. Houthi shelling and rocket attacks on the border have killed[…]
Palestinian leaders have set September 15-16 as the dates for their first congress in nearly 20 years after president Mahmoud Abbas announced his resignation as head of a top PLO executive body. The meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO congress representing those in occupied Palestinian territory and[…]
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