South Africa had violated international law not once but at least three times with its treatment of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, said Professor Bonita Meyersfeld from the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. “The first violation was when South Africa allowed him in in the first place and[…]
The day apartheid police opened fire on protesting black school children in Soweto on June 16, 1976 will be commemorated in South Africa on Tuesday. Observed as a public holiday, it recalls the day police shot at children marching in Orlando West to protest over Afrikaans as a medium of[…]
The SA Litigation Centre (SALC) is considering contempt of court proceedings against the government departments that it believes allowed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to leave South Africa in spite of an interim order preventing this. “Being an organisation committed to the rule of law, SALC is encouraged by the court’s[…]
Syrian Kurdish fighters say they have taken the strategic town of Tal Abyad, a major supply route to Raqqa province, a stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria. “It’s now under complete control,” Redur Xelil, a spokesperson for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG),[…]
UN-sponsored negotiations on the Yemen crisis have started in Geneva, with the aim of ending the bloody conflict in the country. Representatives from Yemen’s exiled government, the Houthi fighters, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General Peoples’ Congress and other opposition groups are expected to attend the talks in Switzerland, which[…]
Israel has blocked a visit to the Palestinian territories by a UN rights envoy, an official said Monday, just ahead of the publication of a United Nations report on last year’s Gaza war. It was the second time Makarim Wibisono, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied[…]
The events of June 16th 1976 is something of common knowledge to most South Africans; a peaceful demonstration by students in Soweto taking a bloody turn after police opened fire with live ammunition on the more than 15 000 who joined in on the protest. The incident left an indelible[…]
Another protest was held outside the African Union summit in Johannesburg on Monday in order to create awareness surrounding the plight of the Ogaden. The protest was held by Ogaden Somali people to raise their voice surrounding the human rights violations occurring within the region. “Many people are not aware[…]
As South Africa marks Youth Day on Tuesday 16th June, several Muslim organisations will provide a platform for community voices to speak out against xenophobia and racism at a conference at Islamia College. The conference is entitled A Special Forum on Personal Experiences and Reflections on Racism and Xenophobia in[…]
This Ramadan will be a memorable one for the Ceres Muslim community, as they mark the opening of their first masjid. The construction of Musjidul Ayob was a three year process and its completion will be a historic occasion for the people of Ceres as it is the first mosque[…]
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