A man suspected of murdering a Khayelitsha woman in her home and then dumping her body in a public toilet is expected to appear in court on Thursday, Western Cape police said. Her body was found in the toilet in RR Block in the informal settlement at 08:00 on Monday,[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will face questions on the minimum wage and the relationship between the legislature and the executive in the National Assembly on Wednesday. The deputy president will be answering oral questions for the last time this year. He will also face questions on government’s plans to curb[…]
Scores have died and dozens were feared trapped in rubble after a strong earthquake struck off the coast of Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials and local media said. The province’s army chief, Major General Tatang Sulaiman, told the DPA news agency that 92 people have died[…]
A 13-foot-high golden effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly erected in the centre of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel’s “culture war” on artistic expression on Tuesday, sparking online controversy and political debate. The gilded statue was raised overnight in front of the Tel Aviv city hall[…]
The Syrian army seized control of the whole of Aleppo’s Old City overnight on Tuesday, after rebels pulled out of the last areas under their control, sites close to the government reported. The reports were corroborated on Wednesday morning by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said that[…]
US President-elect Donald Trump laid out a US military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State (IS) group. In the latest stop on a “thank you” tour of states critical to his 8 November election win, Trump introduced[…]
Nearly 60 people are missing five days after a ship sank off Yemen’s remote Socotra island, its fisheries minister said on Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued. The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen’s southeastern port city of Mukalla towards[…]
By Ra-ees Moerat After the leadership of Cosatu gathered last week, the trade union made public its findings on service delivery in the Western Cape. Regional secretary of Cosatu, Tony Ehrenreich says that the score allocations for service delivery in the Western Cape are based on the audit conducted by[…]
Child soldier-turned-warlord Dominic Ongwen denied 70 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Tuesday when he became the first member of Uganda’s brutal Lord’s Resistance Army to ever go on trial. Ongwen, 41, is also the first former child soldier to be tried by the International Criminal Court[…]
The Joint List, the Israeli parliament coalition representing Arab citizens of Israel, said yesterday that they planned to file a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of accusations that a recent wave of mass fires in Israel and the occupied West Bank were caused by Palestinians.[…]
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