The story of how a courageous six year old boy was killed after defending his mother from a brutal attacker has touched the heart of ulema in the Cape, who travelled to the small town of Taung in Kimberly where the boy was laid to rest on Saturday. Kutlwano Garesape[…]
A Bonteheuwel imam has described how his wife bravely caught a bullet with her hands, in an attempt to save her son from being killed. Imam Magedien Abrahams, his wife Shireen and three sons were the victims of a callous drive-by shooting more than two weeks ago, with most of[…]
At 9:00 in morning, on August 21, 1969, Denis Michael Rohan, an Australian citizen, set fire to the pulpit of the Al-Aqsa Masjid, in Jerusalem. Considered by many as an attack against Islam, this event continues to be remembered as part of the greater Zionist occupation of Palestinian land. Rohan,[…]
More than 200 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip traveled to occupied East Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Palestinian liaison officials. The officials told Ma’an that 250 Palestinian worshipers, all above the age of 50, traveled to Jerusalem via the Erez crossing between the besieged[…]
The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) has dismissed any criminal motive behind the fall of the giant crane on the Grand Mosque last September, according to sources of the Summary Court in Jeddah which is trying 14 suspects in the case. Hundreds of pilgrims were killed and injured[…]
After the recent local government elections produced 27 hung councils, there was a matchmaking fest between political parties to see who would swipe left and who would swipe right in the scramble to hold sway in the council chamber. Parties have a number of options available to them, ranging from[…]
Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will be asked in Parliament next week to account for missing documents in a court case regarding the nuclear energy programme. That is according to Democratic Alliance (DA) MP and shadow energy minister Gordon Mackay on Thursday, who sits on the energy portfolio committee in Parliament.[…]
Sunette Viljoen’s Olympic silver medal in the javelin on Thursday night (Friday morning, SA time) means she can finally move on from the disappointment of finishing fourth in London four years ago. On that dreadful day, Viljoen watched on as Germany’s Linda Stahl moved into the bronze medal position with[…]
The Parliament ad hoc committee established to appoint the next public protector has trimmed the list of candidates from 14 to five. Those who made it through include Western Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai and his counterpart from the Johannesburg High Court, Sharise Weiner. Makhosi Khoza. Credit: INLSA The[…]
Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers will argue that “enough is enough” when his case resumes in court on August 26 to hear an appeal by State prosecutors against his six-year murder sentence on the grounds it is too lenient. In court papers filed by Pistorius’ lawyers on August 11 and seen by[…]
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