OPINION by Ra’afat Marra Anyone observing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will notice that he is experiencing difficult political conditions and a lot of tension. He is making very bad decisions and imposing punitive measures against all Palestinians. In short, we can see that he is losing control of his[…]
OPINION by Richard Falk The mental processes that infuse zombie geopolitics with political vitality long after their viability has vanished is partly mysterious, and partly a calculated effort to deny a changed reality. More concretely, I have in mind the afterlife of the “two-state solution”, long after it became crystal[…]
Western Cape police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder and house robbery of an elderly Ottery couple. Rugaya and Riedwaan Addinall, both 82 years old, were strangled to death and their bodies were found by their son on Sunday after they did not answer their phone. The[…]
The desperate pleas for help from a Cape Town school, which has around 70 pupils in one class, may be answered soon after the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) put in an urgent request for extra staff. “We met the department this morning at the district office, with senior officials,”[…]
Police reported that a Taxify driver was attacked twice in one night in Manenberg on Tuesday. Spokesperson Noloyiso Rwexana said the 28-year-old driver had dropped off three female passengers in Mitchells Plain, before picking up three men who wanted to be dropped in Manenberg. Rwexana explained that one man hit[…]
OPINION by Alexander Matheou The Syrian capital of Damascus can be deceptive. It has the hustle and bustle of a regular city. People there talk of the eight-year conflict as something that is now drawing to a close. Yet you don’t have to look far to see that the humanitarian crisis[…]
US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if he can’t reach a deal with Democrats to fund his promised border wall, which has been at the centre of an ongoing partial government shutdown. Trump flew to the Texas border with Mexico to try[…]
Fire and Rescue services has confirmed that a large area along Kogel Bay and Steenbras has been contained. The blaze was ignited when a man allegedly shot a signal flare into the air. It was carried by a southerly wind into fynbos on a mountain slope behind his house. The[…]
On the 100th day since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, dozens of US lawmakers and activists gathered in the US Capitol to demand justice, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi calling the crime an “affront to humanity”. Politicians from both major parties said his murder highlights[…]
A growing chorus of academics have urged the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) to reinstate its award to civil rights activist Angela Davis after it stripped her of the honor for expressing support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the group Jewish Voice for Peace said on Thursday.[…]
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