There was a huge outpouring of relief in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Friday as murder-accused Christopher Panayiotou was denied bail and told to go back to prison to wait to be tried for the murder of his wife Jayde. “The court’s finding is that the applicant has failed[…]
In-fighting in the ANC has stopped President Jacob Zuma from sharing the contents of the Marikana report with his fellow party leaders and Cabinet ministers, according to UDM leader Bantu Holomisa. “It is clear that he has not yet shared what is contained there [in the report] with the ANC[…]
Despite getting a salary increase of R130 000 annually, or 5%, President Jacob Zuma insists he is sensitive to the country’s social and economic conditions. In response to media reports that he would now be getting a salary of more than R2.7m a year, Zuma said he has opted on[…]
Brigadier Ammar Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, the nephew of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, has been dismissed by presidential decree from his role as a military attache in Ethiopia. Thursday’s announcement came on the same day that former al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) informant Hani Muhammad Mujahid told Al[…]
Pakistani officials confirmed on Friday that only two men have been convicted for the attempted killing of the education activist Malala Yousafzai, not 10 as lawyers from her home region of Swat had initially claimed. Although 10 men stood trial, only two were jailed for their role in shooting the[…]
France’s foreign minister on Friday said Paris was “firmly opposed” to any boycott of Israel as a row rages over telecom group Orange’s decision to withdraw its brand from Israel. “Although it is for the president of the Orange group to determine the commercial strategy of the company, France is[…]
Murder-accused Christopher Panayiotou is expected to hear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Friday whether he will be granted bail. Magistrate Abigail Beeton said she had hoped to hand down judgment on Thursday and had a draft order for his bail application ready. However, she said she wanted one[…]
A letter from 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) Chief Executive Officer, Danny Jordaan, to FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, has emerged which seems to implicate Jordaan and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the scandal surrounding the process behind hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup. According to the Mail and Guardian, Jordaan wrote[…]
As part of the EFF’s bid to rid the country of colonial and apartheid era statues, the party wants 40 towns in the Western Cape to be renamed. Netwerk24 reported that in addition to the 40 name changes, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will also endeavour to change the country’s[…]
The US government agency that collects personnel information for federal employees has said that a cybersecurity breach had compromised the data of up to four million people. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Thursday that it has launched a probe and would hold the culprits accountable, Reuters reported.[…]
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