Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says that crime does not necessarily increase over the festive season in the Mother City, but rather, it is the nature of crime that changes. “I don’t think it’s a fair thing to say that crime increases in the festive season.[…]
The Office of Health Standards Compliance has launched a national complaints management call centre in Pretoria aimed at resolving health related complaints. Chairperson of the OHSC Lizo Mazwai and Health Ombudsman Malegapuru Makgoba officiated at the launch. Makgoba says the call centre aims to bring about accountability and restore the[…]
After surviving an unparalleled attack on his leadership of the ANC, a defiant President Jacob Zuma has told the party’s national executive committee (NEC) that stepping down would be like handing himself over to the enemy and he would never do it. Zuma addressed the NEC following a grueling three-day[…]
Nearly half of the population in war-torn Central African Republic – more than two million people – need humanitarian aid despite progress in stabilizing the country since it plunged into chaos in 2013, a United Nations official said on Monday. The country has been plagued by conflict since March 2013,[…]
North Dakota’s governor has ordered the expulsion of thousands of Native American and solidarity activists camped on government property near an oil pipeline project they are trying to stop, citing hazards posed by harsh winter weather as a blizzard bore down on the area. The “emergency evacuation” order from Governor[…]
Lufthansa will cancel more than 1,700 flights scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday due to a fresh strike by pilots in a long-running dispute about pay as a union representing the German airline’s pilots resumes a campaign of strikes. The Cockpit union has called out members scheduled to fly short-haul routes[…]
The opening of the new flagship Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital is in the first phase of a development that will culminate in the establishment of a world class medical precinct and centre of excellence, which is the first of its kind in South Africa. The hospital offers a comprehensive[…]
Coming on the back of the deportation of activists on board the Women’s Boat to Gaza, this week a delegation of South African youth were denied access to Israel and subsequently deported home. The delegation of five, led by youth activist and member of the Palestinian Solidarity Alliance (PSA), Altaaf[…]
A motorist whose car plunged down Chapman’s Peak Drive on Monday morning allegedly sped through the toll booth without paying the toll fees. It is understood the man had parked at a lookout point and toll booth staff had phoned the police about him not paying the fee to use the[…]
A fire broke out in a three-story building in the village of al-Ram in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem on Sunday morning, while Israeli authorities extended the detentions of four Palestinians with Israeli citizenship suspected of being involved in arsons in Israel. Firefighters evacuated eight Palestinians residing in[…]
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