The High Court in Johannesburg will decide on Friday whether controversial media personality Gareth Cliff can return to his job as a judge on Idols. M-Net removed Cliff from the show following a backlash on Twitter after he commented on a Facebook post by KwaZulu-Natal realtor Penny Sparrow in which[…]
ANC Western Cape chairperson Marius Fransman has been directed by national officials to step down pending the finalisation of the investigation into the alleged sexual assault charges laid against him. “The national officials, seized with the supervision of the ANC constitution, having considered the representations from ANC structures referred[…]
While a police effort to address the gang problem continues, chairperson of the Grassy Park Community Police Forum (CPF), Phillip Bam says a fresh strategy needs to be put in place for more effective results. Gang violence has once again taken the life of an innocent resident, this time a[…]
The Table Mountain Safety Forum will be increasing safety on the Table Mountain chain, following a series of rapes at Rhodes Memorial involving UCT students. The Forum will be working closely with police and campus security to monitor the area as panic increases over the safety of students walking in[…]
Sweden intends to expel as many as 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose applications for asylum have been rejected. “We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb to 80,000,” Interior Minister Anders Ygeman was quoted as saying by Swedish media. He added on[…]
Three cases of typhoid fever have been reported in the Western Cape, the provincial health department said on Thursday. Two of the patients were children, both girls aged 9 and 10, in the Cape Town area. The third patient was a 52-year-old man from the Cape Winelands, said department spokesperson[…]
The funeral of seven-month-old Inganathi Mnyani, who was killed by her mother’s boyfriend, will be held in Philippi, Cape Town on Thursday. Zukile Nakupi allegedly flung Inganathi Mnyani against the ceiling, walls and prepaid electricity meter of her mother’s Philippi home last Monday. He was arrested last Thursday. The couple[…]
Human Rights Watch South Africa says while the country has strong human rights laws in place, implementation remains “problematic”. Human Rights Watch launched their annual report in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on Wednesday. It reported that South Africa continued to face a number of human rights challenges, particularly in terms of its[…]
Cairo – Egypt’s military says an F-16 crashed during a training drill in an undisclosed location in the country, killing its entire crew. Thursday’s statement did not specify the number of dead or provide further details. Military spokesman Mohamed Samir says “these details only concern [them]. Why does it interest[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinian journalists and relatives of jailed Palestinians on Wednesday demanded immediate intervention to save Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq. A sit-in was held for the 33-year-old journalist and father of two, just as the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem held a session ruling to delay[…]
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