Earlier this week, social media users were alarmed at images of alleged abuse at a local day-care centre that surfaced on various platforms. The image, posted by Chinelle van Rooyen of her one-year-old daughter, Zarrah, shows the little girl’s thigh bruised and red. According to the 23-year-old mother, the marks[…]
In response to Israeli’s settlement expansion plans announced in recent weeks, People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty, also known as PASSOP, is inviting community members to attend a free screening of “The Wanted 18”. Set in 1980 against the backdrop of the first Intifada, “The Wanted 18” is a film[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has described relations between South Africa and Cuba as solidarity in practice. He was speaking after meeting his Cuban counterpart Salvador Valdes Mesa in Pretoria on Wednesday night. The two leaders discussed ways of strengthening political, economic and trade relations between the two countries. Vice President[…]
The Woodstock Hub and the City of Cape Town want to recover legal costs from the 27 people taking them to court over their planned relocation to the Wolwerivier emergency housing camp, the Western Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. In addition the R75 000 raised for them through crowdfunding,[…]
A senior Wits University professor has been fired after the institution’s Gender Equity Office found him guilty of sexual harassment. The professor had been on leave since September 2016 while he was being investigated, after three of his junior female colleagues laid a complaint against him. They colleagues had accused[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo’s veteran opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, has died in Brussels aged 84, his party said on Wednesday. Tshisekedi stood up to Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the country then known as Zaire, for more than three decades before Mobutu was overthrown by Rwanda, Uganda and other forces.[…]
More than 100,000 people have taken to the streets in the Romanian capital to protest against an emergency government decree decriminalising a string of corruption offences. Protesters on Wednesday evening in Bucharest shouted “Rats” and carried banners that read “The morning shift”, sending a message that the protests will continue[…]
Amid a chorus of condemnation against President Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims travelling to the US, local ulema have called for solidarity against prejudice and Islamophobia. This comes in the wake of six worshippers being gunned down at the Grand Mosque in Québec, Canada, on Sunday during evening prayers. A[…]
Bromwell Street residents yesterday gathered before the Western Cape High Court to hear the outcomes of an application they filed last year, regarding the emergency accommodation of the 27 people due to be evicted from the Woodstock houses. The lawyers representing the residents, requested that the court suspend their eviction[…]
This forms part of the Hajj Stories series by South African hajj doctor Salim Parker. His features can be found on www.hajjdoctor.co.za Technology is wonderful. Modern aircrafts and computerised optimal connection times led to me completing the journey from Cape Town to Jeddah in less than twelve hours. How different[…]
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