DA councillor Sam Pienaar has made his submission to the party on why he should not be suspended. The councillor was given until 17:00 on Monday to explain why he should not be suspended for failure to declare his participation in a massacre more than 30 years ago. He met[…]
Gareth Cliff will on Tuesday face M-Net, the broadcasting giant he has launched an urgent court application against in an effort to be reinstated as a judge on signing competition, Idols. The bitter TV split between them has made headlines after Cliff was fired from Idols for comments he made[…]
Anti-government protesters defied a security crackdown and took to the streets as Egypt marked the fifth anniversary on Monday of the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak. Egyptians demonstrated against the military-led government in Alexandria’s Al-Qaed Ibrahim Square, which was the site of 2011 protests, as well as[…]
Syrian peace talks that were set to begin on Monday in Geneva will likely begin on Friday, said the UN’s envoy to Syria, who said he expected to send invitations on Tuesday. “We are definitely going to aim at starting the meetings on the 29th and invitations will be delivered[…]
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike in Israeli jail for 61 days, is on brink of death, the journalist’s lawyer told Ma’an. After a visit with al-Qiq on Monday, Ashraf Abu Sneina, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s commission of detainees and ex-detainee affairs, said al-Qiq[…]
Patricia de Lille is the DA’s mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town for another term. Party leader Mmusi Maimane announced her candidacy on Monday. She was one of five party members nominated to stand for the position. The others were Guy Andrews, Daniel Jacobs, Peter Meakin and Ursula[…]
The DA in the Western Cape needs to scrutinise the pasts of all its white members, the ANC in the province believes. “The DA is consciously and intentionally choosing to evade scrutiny of its white members because they fear what they may find out,” provincial ANC spokesperson Yonela Diko said[…]
The man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s 7-month-old baby made a brief appearance in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Zukile Nakupi was arrested on Thursday. He allegedly flung Inganathi Mnandi against the ceiling, walls and prepaid electricity meter of her mother’s Philippi home last Monday. The couple allegedly started[…]
The State has filed an affidavit to oppose Oscar Pistorius’s bid to appeal his conviction of murder with the Consitutional Court, eNCA reports.According to eNCA, the State said that it was in the interests of justice that Pistorius be sentenced on the crime he has committed, and that Pistorius does[…]
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani flew into Italy on Monday looking to reap the economic and political dividends from the lifting of international sanctions imposed over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme. Rouhani will also visit the Vatican and France on his first overseas trip since the nuclear deal came into force[…]
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