Police have called on the public to help identify the bodies of seven men who were found dumped next to the N12 Highway. The men were discovered by a passer-by at the Putfontein off-ramp near Benoni on Thursday evening. The police’s Noxolo Kweza said six of the bodies had sustained[…]
Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy has instructed South African National Parks (SANParks) to suspend the rangers involved in an altercation with pro-cyclist Nicholas Dlamini. A video of a brawl between Dlamini and Table Mountain rangers went viral on social media. An initial investigation of the incident suggests the incident left him[…]
The VOC newsroom had a busy year in 2019 with both heart-warming and heart-breaking stories making headlines. These ranged from the exhibition of the Prophet’s (PBUH) relics making history by being on display to the heartbreaking and tragic news of the Christchurch terror attacks on the Muslim community in New[…]
The VOC newsroom had a busy year in 2019 with both heart-warming and heart-breaking stories making headlines. In South Africa, the news cycle moved at a frenetic pace with breaking news almost on the daily. Politics took an interesting turn post the May national elections, we felt the effects of[…]
The VOC newsroom had a busy year in 2019 with both heart-warming and heart-breaking stories making headlines. This year. US president Donald Trump’s divisive brand of politics and erratic policies continued to cause problems around the world, particularly in the middle east. It was another bloody year for the Yemen[…]
Growing up in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, I was acutely aware that Saudi society was divided along class lines. There was the royal family and the super-rich, the middle class and the poor masses – all strictly segregated socially and culturally. Like many other Saudi cities, Jeddah, where I[…]
On December 9, the world marked the anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: a covenant signed in the wake of the Holocaust not only to punish genocide but to prevent it. And yet, the tatters of the shredded promise of “never again” were on display the very next[…]
National Defence Union Secretary, Pikkie Greef, says the weapons that were stolen during a break-in at the military base in Lyttelton, south of Pretoria, earlier this week, have been recovered. Greef says the weapons were found in Hammanskraal. However, information of the exact location has not been disclosed. He says[…]
Amid deadly protests across India over a contentious new law, one of its largest states has warned protesters it will seize their property, forcing activists to call it a “reign of terror” intended to crush dissent. The northern state of Uttar Pradesh has demanded millions of rupees from more than[…]
Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip will scale back protests along the fortified separation barrier with Israel, organisers said, in a potential sign of a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. The Higher National Committee, a collection of Gaza-based factions and civil society groups that organise the demonstrations, said[…]
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