A Bo-Kaap pensioner living in a derelict house is set to have a fairy tale ending to her story, with the City of Cape Town not only offering to renovate her house with its crumbling masonry, but also facilitating that she take ownership of the house. On Thursday Latiefa Fagodien[…]
A suburb of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, descended into violence on Thursday when Saudi security forces surrounded suspected Islamic State recruits and met suicidal resistance in the latest of a string of similar raids around the country. “The terrorists fired upon security forces requiring them to respond in kind to[…]
An air strike on a camp for internally displaced Syrians near the country’s border with Turkey has killed at least 30 people, activists said. The attack on the camp in Idlib province on Thursday also left dozens of others injured, with a number of those killed children, according to the[…]
The 88,000 residents who fled a wildfire that has ravaged the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray in Alberta will not be able to return home anytime soon, officials warned on Thursday, even as the inferno edged slowly south. The out-of-control blaze has consumed entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray in[…]
#FeesMustFall supporters have criticised the president of the Wits University Students’ Representative Council, Nompendulo Mkatshwa, for speaking on behalf of the movement. An interview with Mkatshwa was broadcast on eNCA’s current affairs show Checkpoint on Tuesday. Mkatshwa was asked for her thoughts on #FeesMustFall, about criticism of her and about[…]
Government will never sell the national airline, South African Airways (SAA), President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. SAA has received a number of government bailouts worth billions of rand and is in the middle of a turnaround strategy. “Government is very clear, we will never sell this company, no matter[…]
Few people were allowed in court on Thursday morning when the two young men, accused of killing six year old Sideeqa Lippert in a gang cross fire shooting, appeared in the Athlone Magistrates court on charges of murder. The court was cleared as a result of death threats placed on[…]
Democracy has failed in Africa, or at least that is how western governments may look upon the continent which hosts 11 of the world’s longest reigning leaders. These presidents have been in power for such a long time that they have become synonymous with their countries and with corruption. Keith[…]
On the occasion of World Hand Hygiene Day, celebrated worldwide on 5 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) urges all health care workers to increase safety through improving hand hygiene and reducing health care-associated infections. The subject of this year’s campaign is surgical site infections, with particular focus on ensuring[…]
Matthew Theunissen has issued a open letter of “unconditional apology” for his racist post on Facebook earlier this week. On Monday, in reaction to Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula’s announcement that a number of sporting codes would not be allowed to bid to host international events as they were not meeting[…]
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