A year long ambition to establish the first halal laboratory is finally becoming a reality. The Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research (CPGR) has announced the launch of Tokeid Biotech, a new laboratory catering to the halal industry, the first of its kind in Africa. Aptly titled ‘Tokeid’, which means[…]
More than 100 local organisations involved mostly with HIV-prevention, children, gender-based violence and sex workers face a crisis because a major international donor is redirecting its funding from rural areas to major cities. Global Fund, based in Switzerland, which works with organisations to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, donates R1.7[…]
A 49-year-old taxi driver was shot and killed while sitting in his vehicle in Burg Street, Rosebank, on Friday morning, Western Cape police said. “The circumstances are under investigation and no one has been arrested as yet,” Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut said on Sunday. “The motive is yet to be established.”[…]
South Africa batsman Hashim Amla insisted his team’s World Cup dream lives on, saying the top Proteas stars are still hoping for glory in the near future. Apart from their Champions Trophy triumph in 1998, South Africa have never won a major International Cricket Council event since their post-apartheid return[…]
Here is what social movement leaders are saying about the recent ANC national executive committee meeting, President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family, GroundUp reports. Equal Education “As a movement of revolutionary youth we call on the young people of South Africa to make themselves heard. We call on every[…]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday to discuss the ongoing violence in the Middle East and the road to a possible renewed peace process. During the meeting, Ban Ki-Moon reiterated his “deep concern over the situation and the need for both sides[…]
A Saudi-led military coalition said it had completed a prisoner swap in Yemen, exchanging nine Saudi prisoners for 109 Yemeni nationals, Saudi state news agency SPA said. Monday’s statement did not say which group the deal was made with, but Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement said on Sunday it had exchanged[…]
At least 70 people – mostly women and children – have been killed at a crowded park in Pakistan in a suicide blast that also wounded more than 300 people, officials said. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, later claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern city of[…]
President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday made a surprise visit to Joytown Secondary school for the physically handicapped where he reiterated that the government will look into ways of reforming the education sector to carter for the needs of students with disabilities. President Kenyatta said the government will ensure that the reforms[…]
Thousands of Muslims from South Africa and abroad have gathered in Johannesburg to attend a three-day annual Islamic gathering known as the Ijitima organized by the international Sunni Jamaat Tablighi movement. “The purpose of Ijitima is to bring Muslims together and remind them about the teachings of Islam and how[…]
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