As most students across the Western Cape face financial and academic exclusion due to #FeesMustFall 2015 protests they are left with turbulent uncertainty. The UWC SRC demands that the historical debt of students be cleared. “Historical debt has always served as a barrier to students prohibiting from registering[…]
The Department of Basic Education has clamps down on a number of institutions in the Western Cape that are claiming to operate as ‘Independent Schools’ and that have been ‘enrolling’ learners for the 2016 academic year. The department stresses this has serious implications particularly for the learners involved, as their[…]
A 16 year-old student has been killed in Southern India while trying to take a selfie with a speeding train in the background. The boy was returning home after an excursion with friends when he was struck at a railway station outside Chennai. Witnesses say he was on the edge[…]
A Claremont teenager has escaped a hack attack by a group of men after leaving a nightclub in Mont last Friday. The incident has since rattled the popular party strip Zander Vermeulen, 19, managed to run to get help while holding his severed left hand, attached by a thread of[…]
The Cape Town Islamic Educational Centre (CTIEC) organized an inspirational event in honour of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). The Grand Moulood 1437 took place on Sunday, which was attended by over thousands of devotees from across the City of Cape Town, including few guest from the Gauteng region. The proceedings of[…]
Clashes broke out on Sunday afternoon between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the village of Jabaa near Ramallah City in the West Bank after a checkpoint was closed, keeping hundreds of cars stranded. Witnesses said that that the Jabaa checkpoint, located at one of the main entrances to Ramallah,[…]
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe met on Sunday with the family of hunger striking prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq. Hamdallah said the Palestinian government was exerting all efforts to obtain the immediate and unconditional release of al-Qiq, who has[…]
The Western Cape Health department announced that the meningitis outbreak in Mossel Bay appears to have been contained. There have been 33 confirmed cases. Thirty-two cases involved minors. “These mostly affect children,” says the department spokesperson Mark Van der Heever Those affected were receiving treatment at a private hospital. Van der Heever[…]
A morning jog became a nightmare for a Cape Town man after discovering a butchered body of a man along one of Table Mountain’s popular running trails. A runner, who asked to remain anonymous, who went for his regular run along the Pipe Track and down Kasteelpoort, made the gruesome discovery at[…]
President Jacob Zuma is set to read the riot act to the ANC Western Cape executive committee on Monday in an attempt to address ongoing leadership instability threatens in the province. The party’s top six is in Cape Town to thrash out structural issues within the party – after the party’s national[…]
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