Last week’s Cape storm and the inferno which hit the Southern Cape have resulted in damages worth an estimated R124m to schools across the province, Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer said on Monday. Extreme weather on June 14 saw 170 schools damaged, while two others were damaged in the[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) is expecting to conduct a competitive bidding process for a new service provider from July, a Parliamentary reply has revealed. In her reply to DA MP Evelyn Wilson, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said a bidding committee has already begun work in finding[…]
Activists and the mother of a Muslim American teenager who was murdered in Virginia on Sunday rejected the police’s conclusion that the crime was not motivated by hate. Nabra Hassanen was assaulted before dawn on Sunday in Sterling, Virginia, about 50 km west of Washington DC, after attending overnight prayers[…]
The suspect behind the Finsbury Park mosque attack was named on Wednesday as Darren Osborne, a 47-year-old married father of four, living in Cardiff. Osborne ploughed a van through a crowd outside the north London mosque at about 12:20am on Monday, injuring 10 people and leaving an elderly man who[…]
Qatar will not negotiate with Arab states that have cut economic and travel ties with it unless they reverse their measures and lift a blockade against it, its foreign minister has said. “Qatar is under blockade, there is no negotiation. They have to lift the blockade to start negotiations,” Sheikh[…]
Israel started to reduce electricity supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday, despite being urged by humanitarian organizations not to implement the decision, which came at the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Gaza’s electricity company, the Gaza Electricity Distribution Corporation, said in a statement Monday that the Israeli[…]
Egypt’s recent turbulent history will no longer be studied by secondary school students, according to a new curriculum announced by the Ministry of Education. The ministry has removed details of the revolution of 25 January 2011 and the events of 30 June 2013, when current ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took[…]
Israeli forces attacked and arrested the Muslim worshippers after raiding the Al Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem on Sunday morning. Many South African Muslims are observing i’tikaaf at the sacred masjid and were eye witnesses to the violence. VOC spoke to SA journalist Ebrahim Moosa on Monday morning Content[…]
Police have found what are believed to be the remains of a 17-year-old Muslim female who was abducted overnight after leaving her local mosque in Sterling, Virginia, near Washington, DC. The All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling on Monday identified the missing girl as Nabra. Her last name[…]
Allegations of sexual assault can be pursued at any time and are no longer restricted to 20 years‚ the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has ruled. Eight alleged victims of the late philanthropist Sidney Frankel‚ who accused him of assaulting them when they were children‚ have won their case[…]
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