At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and over 30 injured when an unexploded ordnance from last summer’s Israeli military offensive went off while clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. Palestinian medical sources at the Abu Yousif al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said four[…]
“It is clear we will never get an answer from the president. Let’s meet in court.” These were the final words EFF leader Julius Malema delivered in the National Assembly on Thursday, clearly dissatisfied with the way in which President Jacob Zuma answered his question on Nkandla. Malema wanted to[…]
A 52-year-old off-duty Western Cape policeman was shot in the face while at a Mitchell’s Plain car wash on Thursday afternoon. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana said the warrant officer was waiting for his car at a garage at the corner of Cedar and Boshof streets in Westridge, when[…]
Sandra Opperman sleeps under a surprisingly clean threadbare blue blanket on a pavement in the Cape Town CBD. “Sjoe, meisie, maar dis koud op die straat [girl, it’s cold on the street],” she admits after begging for a R5 “for bread”. “But this is the life I chose. It’s where[…]
Axed Prasa CEO Lucky Montana allegedly threw a brick at a journalist in Pretoria on Thursday night. It left a dent in Rapport journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s work car as he sped off, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, he said. “He flung the brick with what seemed to me the intention[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has expressed its disappointment with the outcome of the nominations process for its Independent Advisory Panel, calling it a “lacklustre and unsatisfactory response”. Following a timeframe of 10 months, only one nomination was submitted to the MJC for consideration. The MJC leadership and members of[…]
Human Rights advocacy group CAGE have embarked on a review of its activities and future objectives, amidst uncertainty and much public interest with regards to its relations with Mohamed Emwazi, notoriously known as the Islamic State beheader “Jihadi John”. CAGE has had to bear the brunt of negative publicity from[…]
Concerned tenants at a retirement village at Dreyersdal Park in Bergvliet say they can no longer live under the constant housing increases enforced by a social housing non-profit company called Communicare. Ten elderly residents met with VOC News outside the complex to discuss their complaints, on the condition that they[…]
On this fateful day, 70 years ago, the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, with a second catastrophic detonation wreaked on Nagasaki on August 9th , killing over 220,000 people by the end of 1945, with many tens of thousands[…]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir did not come to the country on South Africa’s invitation, President Jacob Zuma said in the National Assembly on Thursday. “Bashir coming to South Africa – it was by invitation of the African Union [AU] and once he is here, he is a guest of the[…]
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