The neglect that some MPs saw at Nkandla is linked to ongoing investigations that disrupted the project, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Wednesday. “We had anticipated that investigations were not going to take long, but unfortunately it took a long time,” he told Parliament’s ad hoc committee on[…]
SA’s water treatment works are in a poor to critical state and monitoring water quality was also becoming an increasing problem. These were among some of the issues the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] raised on Wednesday. CSIR senior researcher specialising in water quality and aquatic ecology James[…]
Comments made by ANC provincial executive member Andile Lili that criminals should be “killed immediately and brutally” incites mob justice and must be withdrawn, the DA said on Wednesday. “If he does not withdraw his statements, the DA will lay a charge against him of inciting violence,” DA Western Cape[…]
Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed into law the ability to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, a move that has met vehement opposition from the country’s medical association. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist coalition weathered a lengthy parliamentary debate and the law passed with 46 lawmakers in favor and 40 opposed[…]
Malaysia is “almost certain” that plane debris found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is from a Boeing 777, the deputy transport minister said on Thursday, heightening the possibility it could be wreckage from missing Flight MH370. Malaysia Airlines was operating a Boeing 777 on the ill-fated flight, which[…]
Hamas officials on Wednesday rejected demands by Fatah leadership to hand over rule of the Gaza Strip and called for an “uprising” against Palestinian Authority security forces. Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad had said on Sunday that Hamas “foiled” efforts towards a unity government, and that the group must hand over[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday approved the “immediate” construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as his government came under pressure from right-wing Jewish groups. “After consultations in the prime minister’s office, the immediate construction of 300 homes in Beit El has been authorized,” a[…]
A forthcoming workshop is set to offer the opportunity to memorise the Holy Quran in its entirety, in as little as 56 days. Despite sounding seemingly farfetched, the programme has yielded much success in several countries including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and parts of North and West Africa. The three[…]
A car bomb exploded outside an Ismaili mosque in an eastern district of the Yemen’s war-damaged capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing nin people and wounding seven, a security source said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Al Faydh Alhatemy mosque in the Nuqum district, describing[…]
In January 2011, in the wake of the Arab spring that swept across the Middle East and North Africa, anti-government demonstrations began in Syria. Syria’s government responded with violent crackdowns against protesters. From those crackdowns rebel groups were formed whose main aim back then was to depose of the government[…]
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