The Department of Home Affairs has said reports of UK-based travellers experiencing problems entering South Africa because of immigration regulations were “baseless and inaccurate”. In a statement the department said negative reports had emerged due to distortion of facts. “We wish to categorically state that these reports are baseless and[…]
Yet another fire has gripped the Mother City this weekend as six coaches caught alight at the Cape Town train station on Sunday evening. The City’s safety and security director Richard Bosman said the incident is currently being attended to by fire and rescue services. “The fire is on platform[…]
Several fires in Cape Town over the weekend have left nine people dead and thousands displaced. The most heavily affected areas included Elsies River, Delft, Mfuleni, Vrygrond, Imizamo Yethu Informal Settlement as well as Cape Town Station. On Saturday alone, eight people were killed after shack fires engulfed various parts[…]
A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least one person and wounded 13 in an attack on a road near a school close to Kabul airport, officials in the Afghan capital said on Monday, barely two weeks after a major Taliban assault in the city. Police said the target of the[…]
Two Palestinians were shot dead after stabbing an Israeli soldier in the village of Huwwara south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, locals and Israel’s army said. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that two Palestinians stabbed and wounded a soldier before Israeli forces on site opened fire, resulting[…]
Iraq’s army declared victory over Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first major triumph for the U.S.-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. The capture of Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province[…]
South Africa ex-president F W de Klerk, on Saturday criticised a campaign to remove a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from an Oxford college. The move to remove the statue follows a similar campaign at the University of Cape Town, where a statue of Rhodes has already been taken[…]
A 27 year-old man drowned at Melkbaai, Strand in Cape Town on Saturday, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Saturday. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon in a statement said at around 15:20 the NSRI Gordons Bay duty crew assisted Strand Lifesaving, Law Enforcement Marine, Western Cape Government Health EMS, ER24[…]
A U.N.-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Saturday has been delayed after the killing of an insurgent leader, an organization that monitors the Syrian war said. The United Nations said it aimed to convene peace talks in[…]
British Muslims have been boycotting a key government anti-radicalisation progamme, according to a report in the Times of London newspaper. Citing figures from the National Police Chiefs Council, the report published on Saturday said less than 10 percent of tip-offs on the Prevent scheme had come from Muslims – that[…]
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