The slow puncture of property prices decreasing to levels that better reflect a poorer economy has started, FNB property economist John Loos revealed in Cape Town on Thursday. ”We’ve had all the structural changes, adjustments in rates and jumps in the energy market,” he told media at the FNB Portside[…]
About 2000 students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) gathered on upper campus to watch the final moments of the Cecil John Rhodes statue, before it was removed. This ends a month long campaign by what was called the Rhodes Must Fall movement to have colonial era monument moved[…]
Local media has come under increased scrutiny over the past week, in relation to its coverage of the 15-year old Cape Town girl who attempted to join the ranks of the Islamic State (IS). Despite information on the case still being limited, mainstream media has been accused of running away[…]
A Johannesburg based scholar has rubbished media reports that he was subject to threats over his condemnation of the Islamic State (ISIS). Maulana Shabbier Ahmed Saloojee was quoted in an article as saying he received threatening phone calls over his opposition to the group. He said the supposed threat was[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has called on the clergy to dedicate their Jumuah Khutbahs on Friday to enlightening the community as to the dangers posed by the radical Islamic State (ISIS). This comes after the ulema body on Wednesday held a workshop with 80 imams, in the wake of[…]
The chaos that erupted in Khayelitsha on Wednesday over illegal land grabs has subsided, with traffic on the N2 now free flowing in Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Thursday.”It has been quiet overnight. We deployed members of the police force to all affected areas last night and again[…]
The defacement of statues around the country are sheer acts of hooliganism and criminality and should be frowned upon by all sensible and law-abiding South Africans, the ANC chief whip said on Thursday. The statement from the whip, Stone Sizani, comes after Louis Bothas statue in front of Parliament was[…]
UCT student Chumani Maxwele, who infamously threw faeces on the university’s Cecil John Rhodes statue last month, said the decision to remove the monument vindicates former black academics at the institution. On Wednesday evening, a sitting of the University of Cape Town’s special Council voted unanimously in favour of removing[…]
Houthi fighters, backed by supporters of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have entered the provincial capital of the Shabwa province in eastern Yemen, despite intense Saudi-led air strikes against the group. Residents said local tribal chiefs and security officials facilitated the entry of the Houthi forces to the city[…]
Iran’s president says his country will not sign on to a final nuclear deal with world powers unless it is predicated on the lifting of economic sanctions imposed on Iran over the nuclear programme. Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday at a ceremony in Tehran that “all economic sanctions must be[…]
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