Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib has lost control of his house, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) student leader Vuyani Pambo said. Pambo was reacting to the urgent high court interdict the university obtained on Thursday evening. The interdict allows the police to step in if there are violent protests; if students[…]
One day after a pair of uniformed men hit a Hout Bay business and escaped with a week’s wages after holding up staff, the robbers went on a shopping spree for new clothing on an employee’s account. Hout Bay Boatyard office manager Melanie Mozes told News24 the duo spent R2[…]
At least 47 people have been killed and over 100 others wounded after Syrian government air strikes targeted a marketplace in a Damascus suburb, sources tell Al Jazeera. An officer of the Syria Civil Defence in the Damascus’ suburbs branch told Al Jazeera that the air raids struck a busy[…]
At least 1,300 civilians have been killed in violence that has increased in intensity over the past few weeks in the Yemeni city of Taiz, according to local monitoring groups. Among those killed were 198 children, the Local Monitor’s Network in Taiz said on Friday, adding that 6,000 others, including[…]
During Shaker Aamer’s near decade-and-a-half of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay — which has finally ended, some eight years after he was originally recommended for release — the British resident was never put on trial for any crime, nor was he ever charged. As such, the 46-year-old — who arrived in[…]
The following jumuah khutbah was delivered by Imam Dr. Rashied Omar at the Jordan Street Masjid in Manenberg on Friday 30 October. The month of October 2015 will forever be remembered in the history of our country for the courageous protests by our university students for free quality education for[…]
wenty years after lodging a claim for six hectares of land her father was forced to sell under the Group Areas Act, an emotional Juanita Solomon walked proudly on the sandy plot after it was returned to her family. “I am standing here today with so many mixed emotions on[…]
Cable thieves were getting more organised and dangerous, costing state enterprises millions in damages said Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha, who on Thursday asked Parliament to pass the Criminal Matters Amendment Bill. The bill, which was fast-tracked through Parliament, sought to introduce harsher sentences for destruction of essential[…]
Deputy Higher Education Minister Mduduzi Manana on Thursday graciously donned a protest T-shirt offered to him by a group of protesters outside Parliament, sporting the slogans #EndOutsourcing #feesmustfall. The group – made up of students and workers from various universities – were waiting to hand over a memorandum calling for[…]
Major backers of Syria’s warring rivals will seek to narrow divisions over the future of the country and its embattled President Bashar al-Assad. The US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran will meet in Vienna on Friday, with the aim of achieving a political settlement to help end the Syrian[…]
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