July2017

Essop Pahad to take stand at Timol hearing

The second sitting of the reopening of the anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol Inquest will enter into its second day on Tuesday in the High Court in Pretoria. Former cabinet minister in President Thabo Mbeki’s administration Essop Pahad is expected to testify when the hearing resumes for the second day. Pahad[…]

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#GuptaLeaks: Another software giant implicated in ‘kickback’ payments

A second German multinational has been caught red-handed entering questionable commission agreements with a Gupta-controlled company in the hope of securing lucrative state contracts. A company that manufactures billboards and a letterbox consulting company also stood to rake in millions. The #GuptaLeaks have already revealed how German software multinational SAP turned[…]

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Kenfac residents march for better policing

By Abubakr Abrahams Some 500 residents from Kensington, Maitland and Factreton held a public march over the weekend to Kensington police station to raise their concerns over the alleged lack of police resources in Kensington. Mogamat Noordien, chairperson of the Kensington Community Police Forum, says police in the area have[…]

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SA hujjaj delayed as flights grounded

UPDATED: South African hujjaj who were stranded at OR Tambo international airport were handed a life-line this afternoon after news that they would be booked on an alternative flight tonight. Distressed hujjaj missed their international flight to Saudi Arabia due to bad weather in Johannesburg. Sathoa secretary Muhsin Shaikh confirmed[…]

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Palestinians continue praying outside Al-Aqsa compound in protest of Israeli measures

For the eighth consecutive day since Israeli authorities installed increased security measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, hundreds of Muslim worshipers on performed prayers outside of the compound gates in protest on Sunday, as Palestinian political and religious officials expressed their strong opposition to the new[…]

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Deadly shooting incident at Israeli embassy in Jordan

Two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded by gunfire in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital Amman, the kingdom’s Public Security Directorate said. The shooting took place on Sunday evening in a residential building used by embassy staff. On Monday, Israel’s[…]

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Taliban claim deadly Kabul suicide attack

At least 24 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded after a suicide car bomb targeted a bus carrying ministry staff in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, officials said. Intelligence officials told Al Jazeera that the bus was carrying staff of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum when it came[…]

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Palestinian hospitals stretched with influx of wounded

More than 900 Palestinians have been injured in confrontations with Israeli forces in the last 10 days over the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Palestinian hospitals, already overstretched, fear a large influx of injured if tensions, which erupted on July 14 after Israel closed the sensitive[…]

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BLF’s Andile Mngxitama linked to Guptas

Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama did not only meet with the Guptas, he also received an instruction to write an article about BizNews editor Alec Hogg on their behalf. This has been revealed in the #GuptaLeaks which shows that Mngxitama met with Gupta lieutenant Santosh Choubey in February[…]

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Malema: ANC must arrest JZ

The EFF would consider a coalition with the ANC if the ruling party’s next leader declared an end to institutional corruption and promised to charge President Jacob Zuma with corruption. The EFF and ANC should be working together but what stands between them ” is institutionalised corruption by the governing[…]

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