“Now the Muslims will milk this”, read one comment posted online shortly after news that Cape Judge president John Hlophe had embraced Islam before marriage to a fellow judge on Freedom Day. The story made headlines on the front page of the Sunday Times and Cape Argus and has sparked[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat – The dawn of winter in South Africa marks a drop in temperature as is nature’s norm. However, in direct contrast, temperatures are rising in the country’s diplomatic arena. Thanks to Israel and Egypt, heat generated by their foolish actions may offset some of South Africa’s[…]
A spokesperson for the Royal Zulu household said on Thursday that the monarch would not be drawn to comment on a complaint of hate speech laid against King Goodwill Zwelithini by a Nigerian human rights organisation with the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We will only respond once we have received[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) would appeal a precedent-setting court ruling giving a terminally ill Cape Town man the right to end his own life with the help of a doctor. “We are disappointed with the judgment and will take it on appeal… because it has far-reaching implications from a[…]
Jayde Panayitou’s abduction and murder appears to have been deliberate, with details emerging that a substantial amount of money was paid to kill her. Earlier on Thursday, provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Marinda Mills announced that two men had been arrested and that detectives had ruled out robbery as the motive.[…]
Some youth organisations are supporting a call by the SA Union of Jewish Students for Wits University to remove its SRC president Mcebo Dlamini, following remarks he made about German dictator Adolf Hitler. AfriForum Youth said it supported SAUJS in its demand as Dlamini’s comments were racist. “We are glad[…]
Nigeria’s military says it has rescued at least 160 more women and children who had been abducted by Boko Haram and were being held in the Sambisa Forest, considered to be the armed group’s last stronghold. Colonel Sani Usman, an army spokesperson, said in a statement on Thursday that those[…]
A teenage boy has been pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-storey Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when a powerful earthquake shook Nepal. News of the rescue came on Thursday as the first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, earthquake-shattered mountain villages[…]
A court in Pakistan Thursday sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, officials said, though the chief suspect remains at large. Pakistani Taleban militants boarded the teenager’s school bus and shot her in the head in October 2012 for[…]
The UN’s new Middle East peace envoy on Thursday urged Palestinian factions to unite and Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, on his first visit to the territory. “I strongly believe that it will hurt the cause of the Palestinian people if division, if the lack of[…]
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