There have been no casualties amongst the Pakistani community in Durban since the recent breakout in xenophobic violence, according to the national chairperson of the Pakistani Association of South Africa. The coastal city has been the setting of shocking scenes over the past week, with at least five fatalities reported.[…]
Ulema in Cape Town have been urged to pray for peace and tolerance during the Friday Jumuah khutbah, as South Africa faces another xenophobic crisis, a stark reminder of 2008. Increased attacks on foreign nationals in Durban have sparked widespread condemnation across the country, with President Jacob Zuma on Thursday[…]
Humanitarian relief organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) say they have seen an outpouring of support from ordinary South Africans in responding to the plight of foreign nationals affected by the recent outbreak of xenophobia in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Since the start of xenophobia tensions two weeks ago, 8500 foreign nationals[…]
Expelled Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will on Thursday lay a criminal charge against the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans leader who threated him, he said. “I will lay a charge against [Lulamile Jack] who has put himself up for some criminal case,” he told delegates at a National Union[…]
Yemen’s vice-President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has called on the international community to intervene to end the crisis in the country at a conference. Bahah, who was recently appointed by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, told reporters at a press conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Thursday that resolving[…]
At least 10 people have been killed according to a monitoring network after Syrian government forces shelled the southeastern suburbs of Damascus, an area that has come under intensive assault by regime jets and artillery in recent days. A main roundabout in the town of Zabdean was shelled on Thursday,[…]
“Where will we go,” asks eight-year-old Tiba Qeren, saying goodbye to the family home that, like those of many other Palestinian citizens of Israel, is condemned to demolition for failing to meet planning rules. “I’m afraid,” she tells AFP. “I know that they are going to destroy our home as[…]
President Jacob Zuma has condemned a spate of attacks on foreigners, calling it “shocking and unacceptable”. Addressing the nation in Parliament on Thursday, he said no amount of frustration or anger could ever justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops. “We condemn the violence in[…]
The DA tried to cool tensions between Speaker Baleka Mbete and the EFF during a questions session in Parliament on Thursday. EFF leader Julius Malema had demanded that President Jacob Zuma answer the “pay back the money” question, but Mbete responded that it had been agreed by all parties that[…]
With Malaysia seen as a popular tourist destination for Capetonians, the country is hoping to further strengthen ties with South Africa in improve tourism there. This emerged at the World Travel Market Africa 2015, which this year hosted travel companies from around the world at the Cape Town International Convention[…]
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