Langa, the oldest township in the Western Cape, is celebrating its centenary in style. This weekend, the proud musical history is honoured with a free Music and Street Festival, focussing on Jazz. Langa is situated nearly 10 kilometres from the Cape Town CBD. Steeped in history, including being a catalyst[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert The Voice of the Cape is saddened about the news that Hajji Mogamat Noor Ebrahim of the District Six (D6) Museum has passed on. Ebrahim, described as a jovial man, always up for telling a story will be dearly missed. VOC station manager Goolam Fakier[…]
Israel will return Gazans working inside the country to the besieged Palestinian territory, the government said, almost four weeks after it began striking Hamas targets there in response to a deadly cross-border attack. “Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza,” the[…]
Civil rights organisations and gender-based violence (GBV) activists have expressed relief as the National Assembly unanimously passed the “long overdue” National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Bill. The Bill paves the way for the establishment of the National Council that will consist of a board of 13 members, who[…]
Alleged Parliament arsonist, Zandile Mafe, has made some shocking claims at the Western Cape High Court, saying that well-known powerful men and women sent him to burn down Parliament. Mafe is testifying in an inquiry into his fitness to stand trial. Earlier on Friday, he confirmed under oath that he did[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert Conveners of the Free Palestine Worcester Campaign was left with a bitter taste in their mouth after a journalist working at the Worcester Standard, a local newspaper, promised to cover their pro-Palestinian march this Saturday, but within minutes said their editorial policy prohibits her from doing[…]
Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged Gaza Strip since the start of its large-scale bombardment on 7 October, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a press release issued Thursday. The rights group said the Israeli army has admitted to[…]
Education is a critical tool for self-advancement, meaningful human development and reshaping and developing communities, deputy chief justice Mandisa Maya said on Friday. Delivering an address at Mpumalanga University, which was celebrating its 10th anniversary, Maya said: “We also know that it is essential for institutions of higher learning to[…]
A bomb blast targeting police forces in northwest Pakistan has killed five people and injured 21, according to rescue and police officials. The blast occurred in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, which has long been home to foreign and domestic armed groups. The bomb exploded close to the route of[…]
In the photo, the woman cradles a child in her arms, balanced on her knee. It is an image that resonates, as ancient as human history, Reuters reports. But in a grim inversion of the familiar, we see that the child she holds close is a corpse, wrapped in a shroud.[…]
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