Eleven people are confirmed dead in an ambush shooting on the R74 in KwaZulu-Natal, which is now being investigated as an incident of taxi violence, police said on Sunday. “We have dispatched our taxi violence unit to the scene,” said police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker. On Saturday night, a minibus[…]
Several train carriages caught alight at the Cape Town railway station on Saturday afternoon. The City Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson, Theo Layne said platform 15 and 16 of the station were affected. A thick black cloud could be seen billowing between high rise buildings in the city centre. Layne[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has received new evidence to bolster its corruption case against former president Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thales. An affidavit signed by Thales’ South African lawyer, Ajay Sooklal, deposed on July 7, contains further details around the alleged €1m donation Thales paid the ANC[…]
Women are the backbone of society and it is with this in mind that VOC aims to celebrate inspiring Cape women at this year’s Golden Hour Luncheon. In South Africa, the 9th August 1956 marks a watershed moment in our country’s history – when 20 000 women took part in[…]
There has been a chorus of criticism against the Zionist state of Israel after a controversial law ‘Nation-State’ bill, declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country was passed this week. The European Union, Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain are among the voices to have roundly condemned the[…]
Cape Town’s strict Level 6B water restrictions will remain in place, at least until the end of August, and will not be relaxed to a less severe level, the Department of Water and Sanitation said on Friday. Regional head of the Department of Water and Sanitation Rashid Khan said, after[…]
A meeting between Hermanus protesters and Police Minister Bheki Cele broke up abruptly on Friday after Cele gave the community 72 hours to return a police firearm. The pistol was taken from an officer who was hospitalised after a beating at the hands of protesters on Thursday‚ and Cele said[…]
The African National Congres (ANC) in Gauteng needs to do some serious soul-searching if it wants to retain the province in next year’s general election, party president Cyril Ramaphosa said. Ramaphosa was delivering the keynote address on the first day of the party’s provincial elective conference in Irene. He says[…]
Israel and Hamas agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, said on Saturday. “With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum[…]
America has rejected plans to link the case of an American pastor held for almost two years with US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for the failed 2016 coup bid, a senior US official said on Friday. A Turkish court on Wednesday ruled to keep in jail on terror-linked[…]
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