Zweli Mugengo is R50 000 in debt. He has loans out on his home, his children’s schooling and a car. Mugengo has been a Golden Arrow bus driver in the Western Cape for the past ten years and currently receives a monthly salary of R11 000 on which he must[…]
Newly appointed acting Hawks head Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata was part of a five-person panel that appointed her predecessor Berning Ntlemeza. Matakata, along with former police minister Nathi Nhleko, Justice Minister Michael Masutha, Minister of State Security David Mahlobo and then deputy minister of police Maggie Sotyu, was part of[…]
African National Congress (ANC) NEC member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says if members of the party continue to be attacked by the opposition, members of the party should protect them. Dlamini-Zuma was speaking at an ANC Cadres briefing in Sasolburg in the Free State. She says this is not the first time[…]
The largest gathering of Muslims in Southern Africa officially kicks off today at the Laudium sports ground in Pretoria north of Johannesburg. Thousands of people are expected to attend the Laudium Ijtima which takes from the 14th of April until the 17th of April 2017. The three-day event hosted by the[…]
Police are investigating the death of America’s first Muslim woman judge as a suicide, the New York Times reported, citing law enforcement sources. Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, was found dead in the Hudson River in New York on Wednesday. Despite her personal accomplishments, Abdus-Salaam, who was serving on New York’s highest[…]
By Melanie Sauer The inmates of the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre have seen a turnaround of the previously “unlawful” living conditions, in just a matter of months. But upon VOC News inspection of the prison yesterday, it is clear the Department of Justice and Correctional Services has a long way to[…]
By Rafieka Williams The latest offering by satirical cartoonist Zapiro has caused yet another stir prompting outrage from the public calling for the cartoonist to be taken to task. The cartoon draws on a rape metaphor as a critique of the current political climate where the South African government has[…]
A group of former intelligence officers issued a statement on Tuesday warning President Donald Trump that he should “rethink” the United States’s escalation in Syria or suffer the possibility of war with Russia. “The threat has grown after the cruise missile attack on Syria in retaliation for what you claimed[…]
Egypt’s interior ministry identified suicide bomber in Alexandria church attack as 31-year-old Mohamed Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, a resident of Suez province, a statement said on Wednesday. Abdullah detonated his explosives at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral, the historic seat of the Coptic Pope, killing 17 people as mass was[…]
Right-wing Israelis and settlers took to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, as hundreds more foreign tourists toured the site, amid ongoing security restrictions on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Passover. Thousands of Israeli police were deployed across the city to provide protection for Israelis,[…]
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