A high level delegation from the prestigious Al Azhar University in Cairo in Egypt are visiting Cape Town this week to engage with the Muslim community. The academics have been sent to the Mother City for what has been dubbed a “Caravan of Peace”. The scholars Dr Mohammad Fawzy Abdul[…]
In a bid to keep the awareness on substance abuse and gang violence in communities, the People Against Gangterism and Drugs (Pagad) will be hosting a motorcade in Woodlands in Mitchells Plain on Wednesday evening. Pagad spokesperson Haroon Orrie said the main reason for the protest is to fight against[…]
A paddler had to swim for shore after getting knocked off his surf-ski and losing his paddle in a squall near Fish Hoek on Tuesday evening, the NSRI said. Riaan Liesegang, 41, had been paddling with his brother-in-law when the two lost sight of each other about a nautical mile[…]
Despite some flaws in the National Development Plan, some of it needed to be implemented as part of the country’s second phase of its democratic revolution, the SA Communist Party said on Tuesday. “There are many positive things in the NDP, but there are also shortcomings,” SACP deputy general secretary[…]
The SA National Circus School is in town but not for much longer, as the City of Cape Town has given notice that its 10-year lease will not be renewed because it has other plans for the land. The school’s founder, 53-year-old Dimitri Slaverse said he was shocked to read[…]
The US has only trained about 60 Syrian opposition fighters to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), far below expectations, Defence Secretary Ash Carter has told Congress, citing rigorous vetting of recruits. The programme, which launched in May in Jordan and Turkey, was designed to train[…]
Euro zone members have given Greece until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe’s currency bloc and into economic ruin. “The stark reality is that we have only five[…]
The Palestinian Authority foreign minister said Tuesday that France was retreating from submitting a draft resolution on renewing Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts to the UN Security Council. Riyad al-Maliki said that France was backing away from the move following pressure from Israel and the United States, who are both currently busy[…]
It has been exactly a year since Israel launched its brutal ‘Operation Protective Edge’ campaign on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, with the conditions of Palestinians in the isolated coastal region looking as bleak as ever. This time last year civilians in Gaza were being confronted with the harrowing scenario of[…]
“Ongoing violence is the biggest threat to victim rehabilitation in Manenberg. It is a right and not a privilege.” These words sum up a new report into the psychological and social impact of gang violence on the beleaguered residents of Manenberg, caught in daily crossfire between warring gangs. The study,[…]
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