April2016

Krejcir snitch ‘was at Smit murder scene’

Community Safety MEC Dan Plato, accused of masterminding a smear campaign against detective head Jeremy Vearey, has admitted his ongoing dealings with an informer who has surfaced in the Radovan Krejcir saga and who has implicated Vearey in the matter. But he denies being involved in this informer, Pierre Theron,[…]

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Ethiopia ethnic violence kills 14

The violence was sparked after an NGO car with an Ethiopian driver ran over and killed two children from the Nuer ethnic group in a camp for South Sudanese refugees on Friday, the sources told AFP. In response, a group of refugees attacked Ethiopians living around the camp, killing 10[…]

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Kenyan elections: police fire tear gas at opposition

Kenyan police fired tear gas into a crowd of opposition leaders and their supporters as they marched on the office of the country’s electoral commission to demand it disband before next year’s election. Several protesters were arrested and at least two policemen were injured by stones, police said. The opposition[…]

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Home Affairs, VFS deny Gupta, Zuma link

Both the Home Affairs department and visa application service company VFS have denied any links to President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane and Rajesh Gupta following claims made by the Democratic Alliance last week. The department’s director general Mkuseli Apleni told reporters in Boksburg on Monday that he had personally overseen[…]

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Saudi Arabia unveils economic reforms plan

Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has agreed a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Monday that the country was building up the its Public Investment Fund to become a[…]

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Bontas takes back streets

Outraged residents of Bonteheuwel are determined to take back their streets from gangsterism and drug pedalling after staging a march in the area on Sunday. Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum spokesperson Judy Kennedy says that due to high frequencies of crime infiltrating the area it has become increasingly difficult to pin[…]

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Shaykh Irfaan Abrahams elected as MJC president

Following the conclusion of the Muslim Judicial Council’s (MJC) 2016 Annual General Meeting, which took place on 23 April 2016, the MJC elections saw the inauguration of a new president, Shaykh Irfaan Abrahams. The elections also witnessed the change of the executive and the five senior positions within the MJC.[…]

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Sahuc releases 1437 haj list

BREAKING NEWS: The South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) has released this year’s haj accreditation list for the year 1437. The list has been published on Sahuc’s website sahuchajjregistry.org.za and all hujjaj were notified via SMS. Successful applicants have until the 3rd of May at 11pm to accept accreditation[…]

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