A planned R100m upgrade to the Muizenberg Police Station in Cape Town has been halted after a meeting with deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi on Sunday, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) said. The SJC’s Chumile Sali said Mkongi made the announcement during the meeting, which was convened by the Khayelitsha[…]
The trial of former Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer and his co-accused, who are at the centre of a corruption case, is expected to begin on Monday. Lamoer and three brigadiers – Darius van der Ross, Sharon Govender and her husband Colin Govender – together with businessman Salim Dawjee,[…]
As a mass hunger strike underway in Israeli prisons entered its seventh day on Sunday, dozens more Palestinian prisoners have declared their participation, while Israeli prison authorities continued to punish those forgoing food by placing them in solitary confinement cells. The media committee established to support what has come to[…]
Centrist Emmanuel Macron took a big step towards the French presidency on Sunday by winning the first round of voting and qualifying for a May 7 runoff alongside far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Though Macron, 39, is a comparative political novice who has never held elected office, new opinion polls[…]
North Korea threatened on Sunday to sink a US aircraft carrier cruising towards the tense Korean peninsula, and said it would strike Australia with nuclear weapons if it “blindly” followed its American ally. The latest warnings from Pyongyang came as two Japanese navy ships joined the American supercarrier strike group[…]
Mali succeeded in restoring interim authorities to its northern cities of Timbuktu and Menaka on Thursday, ending a standoff with armed Tuareg factions that had prevented the transfer of power. The return of state authority to the north is meant to fill a power vacuum that has turned northern Mali[…]
Protesters in Venezuela have renewed nationwide anti-government rallies to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to step down, a day after three people were killed in similar demonstrations dubbed by the opposition as the “mother of all marches”. Crowds on Thursday were smaller than the hundreds of thousands of people who flooded[…]
“We are going to smash all those that are going to stand against the interests of working people in our country,” said Zwelinzima Vavi, the interim leader of South Africa’s newest labour union federation. Vavi was speaking on Thursday at the launch of the South African Federation of Trade Unions’[…]
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) filed responding papers yesterday against acting police commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane revealing shocking new information on alleged “dubious transactions” in the purchasing of his house and vehicles. Last month, Phahlane took IPID head Robert McBride, forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan, his assistant attorney Sarah[…]
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has described the painting by Ayanda Mabulu currently in the public domain, as distasteful. The painting shows President Jacob Zuma and late former president Nelson Mandela engaged in a sexual act. Spokesperson Luzuko Koti says the Foundation has noted the public outrage it has caused and[…]
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