Knives, screwdrivers and dagga were among the items confiscated from a Cape Town High School during a joint search and seizure operation on Thursday. Western Cape Education Minister Debbie Schäfer and Western Cape Minister for Community Safety, Alan Winde oversaw the joint operation between the Education department and South African[…]
A recent survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has found that majority of South African taxi commuters report feeling unsafe during their trips. The IRR’s Public Perceptions of Taxi Use, Safety and Crime report, prepared in conjunction with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, focused on taxi use[…]
Indian air raids launched on Pakistani territory earlier this week destroyed parts of a mostly uninhabited forest and a farmer’s field, witnesses and local officials told Al Jazeera, although mystery remains around a seminary run by armed group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) near the bombing site. Four bombs hit a forest and[…]
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Tuesday for the first time since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh, part of Kushner’s tour of the Middle East, focused on ways of “increasing cooperation”[…]
At least 20 people have been killed and 50 injured after a train smashed into a barrier at Cairo’s main train station, state television and witnesses have said. Photographs on social media showed clouds of black smoke billowing from the building in central Cairo. Footage also showed fire engulfing the[…]
Israeli settler spray-painted racist, anti-Arab slogans, on the al-Rahma Gate (Gate of Mercy), one of the Al-Aqsa Mosque gates, on Tuesday, in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that one Israeli settler raided the eastern part of Bab al-Rahma cemetery and spray painted racist, anti-Arab[…]
Former finance minister Trevor Manuel and former SANDF chief General Siphiwe Nyanda are scheduled to testify before the Zondo commission into state capture on Thursday. Last month, Zondo, who is chair of the commission, denied an application by the Gupta family’s lawyer Mike Hellens to cross-examine Manuel. This was the[…]
On Thursday the matter of the contract of Robert McBride, executive director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), will come to a head: The portfolio committee on police will finalise its report on whether McBride’s contract should be renewed, after which the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will hear[…]
African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has joined the nation in condemning what he calls bogus religious leaders who are not only taking advantage of gullible people but bringing religion into disrepute. He was speaking in Cape Town where he met with young professionals and members of the general[…]
African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has joined the nation in condemning what he calls bogus religious leaders who are not only taking advantage of gullible people but bringing religion into disrepute. He was speaking in Cape Town where he met with young professionals and members of the general[…]
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