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DA calls for Madonsela to investigate al-Bashir matter

DA leader Mmusi Maimane has written to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate whether any state funds were used to transport Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir out of the country, despite a court order barring him from leaving last week, he said on Monday. “I’ve asked the public protector to investigate[…]

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HRC not ready to release findings on king’s remarks

The SA Human Rights Commission is not ready yet to hand over the findings on its report on alleged xenophobic remarks by King Goodwill Zwelithini, an official said on Monday. “We are at this stage unable, in fact not ready, to release the preliminary findings. We’ve had to allow additional[…]

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Ramaphosa can lead SA: Meyer

South Africa is not a failed state and is not on the road to becoming one, says former Cabinet minister Roelf Meyer. Netwerk24 reported that Meyer, who played a key role – with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa – in the negotiations to dismantle apartheid, was speaking in Bloemfontein at the[…]

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Team leaves to repatriate ‘abducted’ SA siblings

A specialist team left for Malawi on Monday to bring back a 14-year-old and 20-year-old who were allegedly abducted and trafficked there. Speaking from OR Tambo International Airport, Department of Social Development spokesperson Lumka Oliphant said the team hoped to be back in South Africa on Thursday with the two.[…]

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‘War crimes’ likely on both sides in Gazan war :UN

Both Israel and Palestinian radicals may have committed war crimes during last year’s Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the “unprecedented” devastation and human suffering. The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict announced it had gathered “substantial information” and “credible allegations” that both[…]

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Taliban attacks Afghan parliament

A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the radicals as they intensified a summer offensive. The brazen assault on the symbolic center of power, along with[…]

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ISIL ‘plants mines’ at Palmyra ruins

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have planted landmines and explosives in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, which they captured last month, sources told Al Jazeera. Activist and Palmyra resident Nasser al-Nasser said that ISIL fighters have assembled explosives around several heritage sites in[…]

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AWS opens hearts to reverts

VOC’s first Ahlan Wasahlan project kicked off with a special programme welcoming and embracing reverts (new muslims) at Al Jaamia Masjid in Claremont on Sunday. From before Asr, local musallees, many of them students at the masjid’s revert classes, began streaming for the afternoon programme. The annual campaign sees VOC staff[…]

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Perrygate: Time to rethink our responses

This piece was written as a response to the blog, titled “The Hunger Games- Ramadan Edition” written by Zahrah Perry. The blog The Perry Book has since been removed.  OPINION by Zahrah Isaacs I was enjoying a nice day out with my siblings and wasn’t paying much attention to my[…]

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AIF distributes 22000 iftar food parcels in Gaza

With high levels of hunger as a result of the Israeli blockade, the Al Imdaad Foundation has managed to distribute over 22 000 food parcels and iftar packs to Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip over the weekend.  Following last year’s brutal Israeli military onslaught, the global humanitarian NGO has[…]

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