The Israeli air force attacked several targets across the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday morning. No human casualties have been reported. The first airstrike hit an agricultural area in Eastern Gaza City near the ruins of Gaza International Airport around 4:00 a.m, locals told Ma’an. The second targeted a military[…]
Members of the Cape Flats Concerned Residents organisation say they will be combating gang related crimes in their respective areas through establishing an active neighbourhood watch and ensure the safety of residents, especially school learners, during the peak of gang violence. The group has also called on communities to join[…]
A busy mall in Somerset West has been accused of profiling shoppers, after an elderly man was on Monday removed for refusing to take off his beanie (cap) from his head. Mall security at Waterstone Mall approached the man, urging him to remove the beanie for security reasons. The elderly[…]
Whilst Muslim minorities have done well to integrate themselves amongst the broader majority within a South African context, Muslims face contrasting situations in other western secular countries, according to Dr Hisham Hellyer, a prominent US based commentator on US and Middle East relations. Hellyer was raised between the UK and[…]
Metrorail has urged commuters harbouring grievances over customer services to provide to detail their complaints, following criticism of employee disrespect towards customers. The most recent complaint centred on security staff conducting ticket checks for the Metro Plus coaches in front of the doors as opposed to on the train itself,[…]
Ongoing gang violence in Manenberg has resulted in services being disrupted at the local clinic as well as the recently launched Manenberg substance abuse treatment site. With daily gang cross fire, city staff have been forced to work under extremely volatile conditions. The City of Cape Town’s Health Directorate said[…]
Clive Derby-Lewis should know by Friday whether he will be allowed to go home on medical parole so as to manage his lung cancer. Judge Selby Baqwa adjourned one and a half days of dense legal argument over whether the prisoner had Stage 3b or Stage 4 inoperable lung cancer,[…]
Marthinus van der Walt was found guilty of the murder and robbery of Dr Louis Heyns in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. Judge Andre le Grange found he had the direct intention to kill Heyns and to take his car when he attacked the Stellenbosch paediatrician on Strand[…]
Children who applied for unabridged birth certificates before June 1 would still be allowed to travel if they didn’t receive their documents in time, Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni told MPs on Tuesday morning The head of the specific home affairs branch would issue a letter confirming that an application[…]
Iraqi forces have launched a counteroffensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Officials in Iraq’s Anbar province told the Associated Press on Tuesday that there were air strikes and fighting on the ground west and south[…]
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