A number of contenders to be the next leader of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) will go head to head at the organisation’s annual general meeting on Saturday. As the current president, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks’ second term draws to a close, the MJC will vote for a new president, a[…]
The Statistician-general has made an appeal to Capetonians to open their homes to fieldworkers of the 2016 Community Survey during their final week of data gathering. Pali Lehohla said fieldworkers had come under attack in Khayelitsha and were terrified of entering areas like Manenberg. He said Capetonians had not made[…]
Residents plan to stage a sit-in at the Nyanga police station in Cape Town on Freedom Day following a spate of bloodshed. Earlier this week a grandmother, a teenager and an 8-year-old boy were killed in an apparent gang retaliation attack in the area. “For us to be known as[…]
The call to have suspended South Peninsula principle, Brian Isaacs, reinstated was intensified earlier this week as supporters of the campaign took to the street of the CBD and marched to the Legislature to handover a memorandum. Isaacs was suspended earlier this year on charges of misconduct. Director of Communication[…]
The Western Cape Health department has put in place plans to distribute 100 000 influenza vaccinations at clinic across the province to prevent people from getting the virus during the winter season. The initiative forms part of the work between the national government and the provincial government which focuses on[…]
Cape Town’s most famous son Taliep Petersen, the widely acclaimed performer was honoured with a posthumous “Lifetime Achievement” award at the recent Naledi Awards, which is a premier award on the calendar of Gauteng awards. The award comes ten years after Petersen’s untimely death, which has left a void in[…]
More than 165 world leaders have gathered at the UN headquarters to sign the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on plans to check global warming. Held on Earth Day, Friday’s ceremony in New York City comes four months after the deal was clinched in Paris and marks[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s former financial advisor Schabir Shaik is talking to his legal team in the wake of the findings of the arms deal inquiry commission, it was reported on Friday. Shaik told The Mercury newspaper that he was convicted for corruption in the deal but maintained that “I did[…]
An uneasy truce between Kurdish and Syrian government supporters appeared to have broken down into heavy clashes and the deaths of at least a dozen people as a new front threatened to open in the war in northern Syria. Militias supporting the government of Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday clashed with[…]
The cold and wet Gauteng weather did not deter the hundreds of mourners who came out to commemorate the lives of their ANC comrades and loved ones who died in a bus crash. Dressed in their green, gold and black finery, the mourners were spirited as they sang and chanted[…]
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