National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete vowed to crack down on striking Nehawu workers if they disrupted any of its business again after a sitting was abandoned when they burst into the House on Tuesday. “Today they didn’t just continue with the strike, they started to embark on the type of[…]
Metrorail has announced that it has been forced to temporarily terminate trains to Khayelitsha from Mandalay station. In a statement on Tuesday, Metrorail regional manager Richard Walker said the forced termination was due to a joint operation to remove illegal electrical connections between Nolungile and Nonkqubela. This, however, resulted in[…]
Protesters took to the streets of Chicago late Tuesday after police released a graphic dash-cam video showing an officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. McDonald was killed in October 2014. The city’s mayor has called for peace. “I believe this is a moment that can build bridges of understanding rather than[…]
Russia’s defence ministry has announced suspension of military cooperation with Turkey and Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister, has cancelled a planned trip to Turkey following the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday. The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane was shot down for violating Turkish airspace, angering Russia’s[…]
An Israeli plan to build several new Jewish communities in the Negev region of the country’s south will displace thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel from two Bedouin villages, rights groups have said. Approved by the Israeli government on Sunday, the plan allows for the construction of five new Jewish[…]
While the number of refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan continues to make world headlines, there is another conflict that rages on that has received little attention from the media. A worsening campaign of attacks by militants in northeast Nigeria is deepening a humanitarian crisis for tens of millions of[…]
A South African victim of an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara has emotionally recounted her experiences on the besieged vessel at a press conference at Constitutional Hall, Johannesburg on Tuesday. Gadija Davids was amongst those aboard the ship in 2010 when their flotilla, aiming to break through the Israeli[…]
While longstanding issues relating to the expulsion of Numsa and Zwelinzima Vavi look to be largely behind Cosatu, the trade union still faces overwhelming internal dissatisfaction amongst many of its member unions. This is according to labour analyst, Tony Healy, speaking as the union hosts its 12th national congress in[…]
The Presidency has dismissed a Mail and Guardian report alleging that President Jacob Zuma met with top Western Cape gang bosses as ” frivolous, incoherent and pathetic”. The report suggests Zuma met with key alleged gang figures including Ighsaan “Saanie American” Davids and Quinton “Mr Big” Marinus in a bid[…]
The tripartite alliance cannot afford to break up, SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. The kind of challenges the country faces requires the maximum unity of the alliance, he told Cosatu’s 12th National Congress in Midrand, Johannesburg. “We’re not going to resolve those by going our[…]
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