The reboot of the soapie Generations: The Legacy has started a national debate about why men in South Africa can take multiple wives when women can’t take more than one husband. This happened after Wednesday night’s episode, during which the main character, Karabo Moroka, told her husband that she would[…]
Syrian opposition members meeting in Riyadh have postponed until Friday a decision on whether to attend peace talks due to start in Geneva the same day, delegates said. “I believe tomorrow we will take a decision” on whether or not to attend the UN-brokered negotiations, said one delegate from the[…]
The High Court in Johannesburg will decide on Friday whether controversial media personality Gareth Cliff can return to his job as a judge on Idols. M-Net removed Cliff from the show following a backlash on Twitter after he commented on a Facebook post by KwaZulu-Natal realtor Penny Sparrow in which[…]
ANC Western Cape chairperson Marius Fransman has been directed by national officials to step down pending the finalisation of the investigation into the alleged sexual assault charges laid against him. “The national officials, seized with the supervision of the ANC constitution, having considered the representations from ANC structures referred[…]
While a police effort to address the gang problem continues, chairperson of the Grassy Park Community Police Forum (CPF), Phillip Bam says a fresh strategy needs to be put in place for more effective results. Gang violence has once again taken the life of an innocent resident, this time a[…]
The Table Mountain Safety Forum will be increasing safety on the Table Mountain chain, following a series of rapes at Rhodes Memorial involving UCT students. The Forum will be working closely with police and campus security to monitor the area as panic increases over the safety of students walking in[…]
Cairo – Egypt’s military says an F-16 crashed during a training drill in an undisclosed location in the country, killing its entire crew. Thursday’s statement did not specify the number of dead or provide further details. Military spokesman Mohamed Samir says “these details only concern [them]. Why does it interest[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinian journalists and relatives of jailed Palestinians on Wednesday demanded immediate intervention to save Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq. A sit-in was held for the 33-year-old journalist and father of two, just as the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem held a session ruling to delay[…]
Nariman Reinke, a German soldier of Moroccan origin, decided to take a stand against the Cologne assaults of New Year’s Eve and the racism that followed. But she has received a decidedly mixed response. In the days after New Year’s Eve, police reported that a series of sexual assaults and[…]
Cape Town – The DA on Wednesday handed a petition to Eskom CEO Brian Molefe calling on the utility’s executive to pay back R63m in bonuses. “Since load-shedding began in 2008, Eskom executives have received over R73m in bonuses. This is an insult to hard-working South Africans, who continue to[…]
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