Leading female scholars from Saudi Arabia have described moves to ease restrictions on women as government spin aimed at an international audience to bolster support for efforts to liberalise its ailing economy. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to appeal to western governments as a reformist while cracking[…]
Three fighters from forces loyal to the former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed in a second day of clashes with their allies from the Houthi movement in the capital Sanaa, Saleh’s party said on Thursday. The two groups are fighting a Saudi-led coalition that has intervened in a[…]
US President Donald Trump is set to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel within days and is considering how to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Ynet News and other newspapers. Reports from inside Israel allege that pressure from the Republican Party and Evangelical[…]
With the help of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a motion of no confidence against City of Johannesburg executive mayor, Herman Mashaba, and council speaker, Vasco da Gama, failed on Thursday night. During Da Gama’s motion, which was heard at around 19:00, there were 140 councillors who voted against the motion[…]
Controversial former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza will on Friday hold the founding conference of her new political party. According to a statement, “The new party is born out of a merger of several political entities and civil society organisations that seek to bring about change to South Africa’s body politic[…]
Young women aged between 15 and 24 still make up the group with the highest number of HIV infections in South Africa, where seven million people have the disease. Friday, December 1 marks World Aids Day and this year it is being observed under the theme “The Right to Health”.[…]
MultiChoice will investigate its total payments to the controversial ANN7 TV channel following media reports of “an irregular relationship” and concerns about corporate governance failures. The chair of the MultiChoice audit and risk committees, Don Eriksson, said in a statement on Friday that the board would investigate and take necessary[…]
About 100 property owners from the Heideveld housing development received their title deeds from the City of Cape Town’s Transport and Urban Development Authority on Thursday. This follows yesterday’s handover of 60 title deeds to property owners from Kleinvlei and last week’s 170 title deeds that were handed over to[…]
The annual “Walk in the Night” will once again take place through the CBD this evening. It marks Emancipation Day on 1 December 1834, when enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. The District Six museum will be honouring the former slave, Lydia Williams and world renowned South African[…]
Parents need to look at what kind of examples they are setting for their children and to groom young men and boys to have the power to be positive role models and exemplify a masculinity that is non-violent. That was the strong view of JP Smith, Mayoral committee member for[…]
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