Two children died in a fire in an informal dwelling in Tafelsig Mitchell’s Plain in the early hours of Sunday morning. The structure was located at the back of a house at 30 Suurberg Crescent. The City of Cape Town’s fire services said the cause of fire has not been[…]
Residents of Haywood Road, Crawford are engaging with the City of Cape Town on their water woes, but say they are still being “harassed” by the media and the public. An unidentified resident in Haywood road has been named as the top water user in the municipality in a list[…]
A spokesman for Barack Obama on Saturday rejected claims from US President Donald Trump that the former president had wiretapped him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign. “Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise[…]
Islamic State fighters have severely damaged a major Roman monument in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities official said after visiting the site on Saturday. Under heavy Russian air cover, the Syrian army and allied militias drove the militant group out of the UNESCO world heritage site on[…]
Pro-Palestinian activists on Saturday called on the British government to apologise for the “disastrous” role of the Balfour declaration in the “biggest social injustice of our time” – decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Speakers at the Palestine conference at University College London said the centenary of the 1917[…]
Israeli forces detained 420 Palestinians during the month of February, including 70 minors and 22 women and girls, according to a statement released on Saturday by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies. The center said in its monthly report that 12 of the detentions were carried out in the besieged[…]
Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini said on Sunday that “fraud and corruption is well documented in cash transfer systems throughout the world and South Africa is no different”, adding that grants will be paid on April 1. Dlamini was briefing the media on the Sassa debacle that has left[…]
Parliament has revealed that it recruited active police officers to become part of its protection services because its existing protection officers did not have the necessary critical skills required to engage with and control unruly MPs. This emerged in court papers, filed this week, in which the House disputes accusations[…]
Captains of commerce and industry have warned of dire consequences for the continent as Africa’s two biggest economies intermittently fall out over violent attacks on foreigners in South Africa, especially on Nigerians. The xenophobic violence in Gauteng sparked a diplomatic fracas between the two countries. The strain was visible in[…]
This is the first in a series of articles by VOC reporter Yaseen Kippie, reflecting on his recent trip to the Syria-Turkey border On February 19th, I embarked on a profound and moving experience that reinforced my views on the political, socio-economic and inhumane conditions caused by a war utilising[…]
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