China angrily denounced on Friday renewed US allegations that it was interfering in upcoming American midterm elections. In a wide-ranging speech delivered on Thursday night, US Vice President Mike Pence said Beijing was meddling in the vote to counter tough trade policies against China. The comments echoed those by President[…]
Two fires flared up near fire exits in Durban’s Addington Hospital on Thursday which may have been acts of arson, the KwaZulu-Natal department of health said on Friday. “Both fires appear to have happened in a similar fashion, which raises a high suspicion of classifying them as related acts of[…]
Jerusalem’s mayor said on Thursday he plans to remove a UN agency for Palestinian refugees from the city, accusing the body of operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel. Nir Barkat said schools, clinics and sports centres, among other services operated by UNRWA in east Jerusalem, will be transferred to[…]
Business, labour and government at the summit have agreed to work together on a number of initiatives to create jobs. A co-ordinating and monitoring mechanism is to be established within the Labour Department to follow-up on implementation of the 24-point Framework agreement that was signed at the Jobs Summit in Midrand on[…]
Protests flared up in Ennerdale, Johannesburg on Friday morning, in the wake of talks to broker a truce in Westbury. “They are burning tyres,” Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD)’s Senior Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said on Friday. “They are in solidarity with Westbury,” said Minnaar of initial reports received from the[…]
Metrorail has promised a response in the next two days to demands that it compensate commuters for delays. Lobby group #UniteBehind wants the rail provider to extend monthly tickets of commuters who’ve been affected by delays until Metrorail can run a consistently reliable service. The group organised a protest in[…]
“We as the Western Cape Shutdown Movement call for greater co-operation between all spheres of government, policing agencies and metro policing forces, together with civil society, religious organisations and organised labour.” This was the impassioned plea of United Public Safety Front founder John Cloete and a group of about 300[…]
Child advocacy organisation Save the Children is calling on restaurants to review their child safeguarding policies, in the wake of the recent “Dros Rape” case, that has shocked the country. Last week, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man in a bathroom of the Dros restaurant in[…]
Following days of protests in southern Yemen’s capital Aden over the government’s inability to tackle an economic crisis, a southern separatist group on Wednesday called for independence and a popular uprising. Yemen is suffering a crippling economic crisis as the rial plummets in value and prices of essential goods rise[…]
An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 12 years in jail for shooting and wounding six African migrants in a racially motivated attack in the central city of Macerata. Luca Traini, 29, went on the shooting spree on February 3 in what he said was revenge for the[…]
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