Several of the country’s biggest trade unions have signed an agreement in support of a boycott campaign against local retailer Woolworths, demanding the company severe trade links with all Israeli affiliates until the Zionist state has complied with international law in its handling of the Palestinian population. The support is[…]
Negotiations between the Gift of the Givers and the captors of South African citizen, Stephen McGown may finally be underway, four months after the local relief agency agreed to take up the case of his abduction. McGown, along with Swedish national, Johan Gustafsson were taken hostage by al-Qaeda in Mali[…]
A recent wave in high-profile incidents of terrorism is likely to have detrimental effects on the tourism sector, with cancellations to popular tourist destinations across Europe already on the rise, according to a local tourism researcher. A series of coordinated attacks in Paris, suicide bombings in Beirut and other parts[…]
OPINION by Dr Daud Abdullah – Three and a half years have passed since Archbishop Desmond Tutu refused to share a platform with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. The veteran anti-apartheid campaigner believed that Blair’s actions over the war in Iraq were both “morally indefensible” and criminally culpable.[…]
Cape Peninsula University of Technology students living in university residences will be allowed to stay on campus for an additional week. This after the institution’s court order to have them removed was set aside in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. Students were initially given a deadline to vacate[…]
Two women were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a block of flats in Boston Street, Bellville. About 120 people had to be evacuated from the 10-storey building, Cape Town fire and rescue spokesperson Theo Layne said. “The fire has been extinguished, and firefighters have inspected[…]
While devastating flames were still blazing across Simon’s Town slopes, a savvy investigator was picking up clues to figure out its cause. There was a lot at stake. The fire along Cape Town’s southern peninsula last Wednesday and Thursday destroyed a number of homes and holiday cottages. Some residents were[…]
Germany plans to send about 650 troops to Mali to help with the peacekeeping mission in the restive West African state, the defence minister said. “We will shortly ask parliament to approve a mandate of up to 650 soldiers,” Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. The move comes after[…]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed “emotional” and “unfitting” suggestions that projects with Russia could be canceled following Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border. In an escalating war of words, he responded to Russian accusations that Turkey has been buying oil and gas from Islamic[…]
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to join air strikes against Islamic State in Syria because Britain cannot “subcontract its security to other countries”. Many Britons are wary of entering into another war in the Middle East after Western intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya failed[…]
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