A South African photojournalist has reportedly been kidnapped in Syria near the Turkish border. According to aid organization Gift of the Givers, Shiraz Mohamed was abducted by a group of men en-route to Turkey. Gift of the Givers Imtiaz Sooliman says the information he has from his team in Syria[…]
OPINION By Avi Shlaim [Avi Shlaim is an emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University.] There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other countries. What is striking, however, about contemporary Britain is the use[…]
Absa said a preliminary report by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane that recommends the bank pay back R2.25bn it received as part of an unlawful apartheid-era bailout is “regrettable”. The bank said that the Davis Panel of experts appointed by former South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) governor Tito Mboweni in 2000[…]
The environmental affairs department on Friday, sent a contingent of about 1000 firefighters from its Working on Fire (WoF) programme to assist with disaster management officials in containing fires raging across the Western Cape. “The fire crews, bolstered by aerial support, have been busy at multiple fires in Somerset West,[…]
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed openness to lifting sanctions against Russia under certain conditions, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. When asked about the ‘One China’ policy, he said, “everything is under negotiation.” In the hour-long interview on Friday, Trump said he is willing to keep the sanctions[…]
The African Union says it will cease to recognise Yahya Jammeh as The Gambia’s legitimate president after last-ditch attempts to persuade the longtime leader to step down failed. Jammeh, a former coup leader who has ruled the country since 1994, lost a December 1 election to Adama Barrow by a[…]
The United States has announced the end of a 20-year economic embargo on Sudan, lifting trade and financial sanctions in an effort to foster ties with the Sudanese government. The announcement made by outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration on Friday comes after an executive order to permanently repeal a range[…]
The Cape Town Disaster Management office said its resources were stretched after eleven fire incidents were reported yesterday. Fire fighters worked through the night to douse fires across the province. The teams will today try to extinguish hotspots in Simons Town where an extensive vegetation fire broke out causing the[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday said Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane’s visit to Israel confirmed suspicion that the official opposition supported the policies of the Jewish state, and undermined its stated support for self-determination for the Palestinian people. “At a time when the world is increasingly standing[…]
Harmony Gold has confirmed that more than a thousand miners who had been staging a sit in at the Kusasalethu mine near Carltonville, west of Johannesburg, have returned to the surface. The miners refused to surface after their shift on Wednesday following a disagreement over money. Harmony Gold says following[…]
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