While it may still be early days into the new year, the gang-stricken community of Hanover Park has seen a notable reduction in shootings, thanks in large parts to a ceasefire agreement reached with the area’s gangs.This is at least according to the area’s Community Policing Forum (CPF). The Manenberg[…]
OPINION by Hamid Dabashi – As fate would have it, precisely at the moment when the false Sunni-Shia, Arab-Persian divide was raging between Iran and Saudi Arabia and hitting dangerous lows, I had occasions to visit the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar: physically located between Iran and Saudi[…]
AbaThembu royal household representatives met in the Eastern Cape on Monday to discuss the incarceration of their king, Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo. Royal family spokesperson Daludumo Mtirara said the meeting had started with formalities and would move on to dealing with the issue of the king being sent to jail. The matter[…]
Motorists should expect long delays on the road this week due to the end-of-holiday traffic rush, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said on Monday. More than 1 000 vehicles an hour were passing points along the country’s major roads, including the N3 and N1, spokesperson Simon Zwane said. Over 1[…]
The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the Department of Basic Education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will first announce the national pass rate on television at 18:00 on Tuesday January 5 for pupils who[…]
A social media storm is brewing after a KwaZulu-Natal south coast estate agent called New Year’s Day beachgoers “monkeys”. Penny Sparrow had made the inflammatory post on Facebook, which prompted a mass reaction on social networking sites. In her post she wrote: “These monkeys that are allowed to be released[…]
Bahrain says it is severing its diplomatic ties with Iran and has called upon Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours. Isa al-Hamadi, the Bahraini minister of media affairs, made the announcement on Monday amid heightened tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, after Saturday’s attack on the Saudi[…]
Sweden and Denmark have moved to drastically reduce inward refugee flows, as Scandinavian countries compete with each other to shed their reputations as havens for asylum seekers. For the first time since the 1950s, from midnight on Sunday travellers by train, bus or boat have needed to present a valid[…]
Three mosques in an Iraqi city south of Baghdad have been bombed and partially destroyed, with no group yet claiming responsibility. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi confirmed that the attacks on Sunni mosques in the city of Hilla, in Iraq’s Babil governorate took place on Sunday night. He warned the population[…]
Equal Education on Sunday asked South Africans to spare a thought for those students who had dropped out of schooling before they could even reach matric. “If half or nearly half of all learners never take matric, this is a major problem in itself,” said the civil rights organisation in[…]
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