With immense social pressures facing Muslim youth today, some youngsters in Cape Town are hoping to steer the negative perceptions of youth by making a small difference in their communities in Ramadan. Through the financial support of family, friends, businesses and the local neighbourhood, these groups of youth are striving[…]
Britain will fall silent on Tuesday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of attacks targeting London public transport which killed 56 people, the first suicide bombings by militants in western Europe. Relatives of the victims, survivors, royalty and senior politicians will gather to remember those killed in the July 7 2005 bombings[…]
The Limpopo businessman accused of murdering his wife was expected back in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. During his last appearance, Rameez Patel was granted bail of R250 000. At the time, Magistrate Mohammed Shaik said exceptional circumstances, namely that the couple’s children needed to be looked after, justified[…]
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) says the locomotives it acquired are the best in the world, and they are suited for local tracks. Group CEO Lucky Montana briefed reporters in Pretoria on Monday following a report in Rapport newspaper at the weekend that South African railway officials imported[…]
Two unidentified men were killed on Monday morning and their burnt bodies left near the Heideveld train station, Western Cape police said. Officials covered the bodies, next to the station’s foot bridge entrance in Gugulethu, and closed off the scene with crime tape. The motive for the murders was under[…]
Cosatu in the Western Cape said on Monday it was throwing its weight behind the Huguenot Tunnel workers who are currently on strike. The workers went on strike on June 25 after talks collapsed between the employer (Tolcon) and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu). Talks were facilitated[…]
A dispute over UN sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile programme, as well as a broader arms embargo, are said to be among the main issues holding up a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, a day before their latest self-imposed deadline. “The Iranians want the ballistic missile sanctions[…]
France and Germany told Greece on Monday to come up with serious proposals in order to restart financial aid talks, a day after Greeks voted overwhelmingly to reject more austerity. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, the euro zone’s most powerful leaders, said Athens must move quickly[…]
US President Barack Obama has said that the US-led coalition battling fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was “intensifying” its campaign against the armed group’s base in Syria. Speaking at the Pentagon on Monday, Obama said that recent territory losses by the ISIL group show[…]
Israel has arrested six Palestinian Bedouins from the Negev, including four teachers, for allegedly supporting the Islamic State group, the domestic security service said Monday. The six men, all members of the same family, were relatives of two people who already traveled to Syria to fight alongside IS radicals, Israeli[…]
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