Learners at The Leadership College (TLC) in Hyde Park in Mitchell’s Plain face an uncertain future as parents are forced to find alternative placement for their children with the school’s looming closure. TLC in Hyde Park is in the midst of a financial crisis resulting from a mammoth R8 million[…]
By Abubaker Abrahams Trade federation Cosatu says it’s worried that the economic recession and “a crisis of profit” is being used by many of these corporate companies to retrench workers and erode workers’ rights. The union was responding to news of supermarket retailer Pick n Pay’s decision to cut 10%[…]
It is vital for decision-makers working to change drugs policy to recognise the degree to which the criminalisation of drugs and drug use is deeply steeped in xenophobic and racist views of the world. This is according to Ethan Nadelmann, the keynote speaker at the opening event of the SA[…]
The member of Parliament who was earlier announced to have died in a car accident, has been identified as ANC member comrade Timothy “TZ’ Khoza. Khosa and three other MPs, who were seriously injured in the car accident, were travelling to Paarl in the Western Cape. The injured have been[…]
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced its readiness to hold successful by-elections set to take place in the Western Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday. The by-elections come as a result of either the death or the resignation of councillors in the different wards. IEC spokesperson Kate Bapela says,[…]
The cousin of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol wept as he recalled how he could not shed a tear when he saw Timol’s wounded lifeless body because it would put him at risk of arrest by the security branch police. With a lump in his throat, Farouk Dindar was forced to[…]
Hundreds of far-right religious Israelis entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’av. Tisha B’Av notably commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temple, which Jews believe were located where the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the[…]
Around 70 sub-Saharan African migrants crossed the razor-wire-topped fence separating northern Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday, leaving 14 people hospitalised, the Red Cross said. Local police said 200 people rushed the border in a bid to reach Europe. Around 60 managed to enter the territory and[…]
Saudi Arabia has asked a US judge to dismiss 25 lawsuits filed against it in relation to its alleged support of the September 11, 2001 attacks, court documents filed late on Monday afternoon show. In a filing in US District Court in Manhattan, lawyers representing Saudi Arabia claim the plaintiffs[…]
By Faizel Patel The Jamiatul Ulama South Africa says while it is very difficult to build an Ummah, it is also very easy to demolish and break communities and relationships between Muslims. Secretary General Moulana Ebrahim Bham was responding to comments made by Mufti Abdul Kader Hoosein during Channel Islam[…]
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