On Wednesday, the United Nations as well as various other organisations around the world will commemorate the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2005 the United Nations General Assembly designated the 27 January as a day of commemoration for Holocaust victims. The date coincides with the day of the liberation[…]
January is usually a stressful for parents as they deal with the exorbitant costs of basic school requirements such as school uniforms which often can run into thousands of rands. The Competition Commission has issued schools with a memorandum to exclude exclusivity deals with certain retailers, after complaints from parents[…]
With more communities affected by the current drought in South Africa, the Voice of the Cape has announced that it will be partnering with Shukrul Mubeen Masjid on a new water project to address the water scarcity. Five provinces have so far been declared disaster areas since the worst[…]
Five years ago, in January 2011, images of the revolution from Cairo’s Tahrir Square that led to the fall of the Mubarak government were watched around the world. As January 25, 2016 approached, the Egyptian authorities put the word out and the media echoed it – that history[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Schools were set to close across much of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as weather conditions continued to deteriorate across the occupied Palestinian territory. In the West Bank, district offices of the Palestinian Ministry of Education, including those in Ramallah,[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The PLO has called for the unconditional release of a Palestinian journalist in Israeli custody whose 62-day hunger strike has brought him close to death ahead of an appeal by the prisoner’s lawyers before Israel’s Supreme Court this week. Muhammad al-Qiq, a 33-year-old journalist from[…]
A News24 journalist was left shaken on Tuesday morning after a policeman pointed a firearm at her and threatened to shoot her in peak morning traffic. The policeman was part of a security operation believed to be transporting cash to the South African Reserve Bank office in central Cape Town.[…]
M-Net does not want to be associated with a person who is largely perceived to be a racist, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Tuesday in response to an application brought by axed Idols judge Gareth Cliff. “What M-Net is saying, is that your view and conduct has[…]
Fresh from her Paul Kruger photo controversy, DA MP Anchen Dreyer warned that the ANC would “grab at any crumb” to use racism accusations as an election strategy. “They may think they are going to get short-term gain from it, but in the long term it can actually tear the[…]
The investigation into the collapse of the rand has started, with the Competition Commission targeting six major financial institutions implicated in currency manipulation. The commission confirmed that this probe would reveal the forces behind the depreciation of the currency in the last few years. Spokesperson for the Competition Commission Itumeleng[…]
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