South Africa will push for sustainable and inclusive growth, the creation of decent jobs and the reduction of illicit financial flows at the G20 Summit which begins in Hangzhou, China this weekend. President Jacob Zuma is leading the country’s high level delegation of ministers and business people to the two[…]
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) says it plans to announce its turnaround strategy in September. Prasa’s image has been negatively affected by internal problems and the continued vandalism of its infrastructure. The Acting Group Chief Executive Officer, Collins Letsoalo, addressed the media in Cape Town. “We will[…]
The inter-ministerial committee (IMC) set up by Cabinet to probe why South Africa’s banks blacklisted Gupta-owned businesses recommended a judicial inquiry be set up, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said. Zwane, who headed up the committee, said in a statement released late on Thursday on the department’s website, that the[…]
An Illegal Koranic school teaching up to 20 children as young as six was discovered inside a mosque, earlier attended by several extremists, in a Paris suburb. French prosecutors believe the children were at risk of being “turned into jihadist recruits.” The ‘Little Bees School’ was found during a police[…]
A Turkish incursion in Syria is proceeding successfully and has already allowed the country to “liberate” a vast swath of land from Islamic State militants and US-backed Kurdish YPG forces, President Tayyip Erdogan stated. “Nobody can expect us to allow a terror corridor on our southern border,” Erdogan told a[…]
At least 12 people were killed and 40 wounded when two bomb blasts went off outside a district court in northwestern Pakistan, a rescue official said. The attack on Friday in front of the court in the town of Mardan in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province was the latest in a string of[…]
Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall”, thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for a recall referendum this year against Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With protesters from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes, the opposition coalition aimed to collect at least one[…]
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.” — Orson Welles While the first of September ushers in Spring, it also marks VOC’s birthday. Today, VOC celebrates its 21st year on air. On the 1st September 1995, VOC started broadcasting on a permanent licence, making it the first Muslim[…]
As the qurban period begins, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) is excited to announce the third annual Waqf Al-Khayrat Qurban. The MJC and the Waqf Al-Khayrat in recent years entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Waqf Al-Khayraat, in a bid to develop intercontinental relations between the Muslim[…]
Cape Town lovers of the Quran will be mesmorised by the recitation of the internationally recognized and distinguished qari Shaykh Qari Syed Sadaqat Ali Al Azhari from the United States of America, who will be visiting Cape Town this week. Al Azhari is the pupil of the internationally famous Qari[…]
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