UCT Student Representative Council (SRC) members have denounced claims made by SRC president Karabo Khakhau that there was a housing crisis at the university. Khakhau claimed on Monday that the university had over-allocated spaces in residences, which resulted in many students having to find private accommodation instead. – Read: UCT[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) top six officials will not be attending the former president Nelson Mandela’s Centenary Celebrations build-up events to his centenary celebrations. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated meeting between ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Jacob Zuma is expected to take place this weekend. SABC News has reliably learnt[…]
Gambia has rejoined the Commonwealth, the tiny West African former British colony’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, five years after its now exiled former authoritarian leader withdrew his country, calling it a “neo-colonial institution”. During his 23-year rule, Yahya Jammeh, who fled Gambia a year ago after regional militaries launched[…]
Residents and medical sources in Eastern Ghouta have warned that the Damascus suburb is running short of food, water and medical supplies amid intense Russian and Syrian bombardment of the rebel-held area. The area’s designation as a de-escalation zone by Turkey and allies of the Syrian government, such as Russia[…]
After the historic case of apartheid teacher and activist Ahmed Timol was finally brought to light last year, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) is calling for the Hawks to re-open the case of Ashley Kriel’s deaths after thirty years. Ashley Kriel, who was a 20-year-old student activist from[…]
Former acting police commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane, his wife and a car dealer are expected to hand themselves in to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) tomorrow morning to be charged with corruption. News24 has reliably learnt that the suspended general will then appear in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes[…]
Within the next month, the entire country will be classified as being in a state of disaster due to the continuing drought and water shortages. The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Des van Rooyen made the announcement at a portfolio committee in Parliament Wednesday. A raft of stakeholders[…]
President of the Congress of the People (COPE) Mosiuoa Lekota says the current political climate that the country finds itself in, is the African National Congress (ANC)’s fault. Lekota was speaking on the sidelines of a community meeting at Barkly West in the Northern Cape. He says the ANC’s failed[…]
Most armed groups involved in human smuggling and trafficking in Libya have links to the country’s official security institutions, sanctions experts said in a confidential report to a U.N. Security Council committee seen by Reuters on Wednesday. People smugglers operating with impunity in Libya have sent hundreds of thousands of[…]
Russian and Syrian government forces have killed at least 136 civilians over the past 48 hours in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the capital Damascus, according to residents and monitoring groups. On Monday, 30 civilians were killed in air raids; on the following day, 80 more were killed, and on[…]
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