Press freedom is being increasingly compromised in southern Africa‚ where journalists and media owners are being targeted for exposing the truth. Amnesty International‚ in marking World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday‚ said the intimidation of journalists sent a frightening message to their colleagues‚ causing them to self-censor. “From Angola to[…]
By Yaseen Kippie Tensions broke out at the Baxter theatre in Rondesbosch on Monday 1 May as the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) celebrated Israel’s self-proclaimed Independence Day, ‘Yom Ha’atzmaut’, This day has been labelled differently by Palestinians as ‘Yawm an-Nakba’, or the ‘Day of the Catastrophe’ – when more[…]
A social media campaign highlighting the plight of more than 1,500 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has gone viral, with people from across the world posting videos of themselves on social media drinking salt water in solidarity. Similar to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in[…]
Practitioners, scholars and experts on Zakah and Islamic finance will gather to discuss and share their knowledge, expertise and experience at SANZAF’s International Zakah Conference from Friday 5th to Saturday 6th May. Zakah knowledge and Sharia banking has become an important and vital part of the financial systems in many[…]
Palestinian rights lobby group Media Review Network has written an open letter to the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) urging it to investigate allegations of alleged racial profiling, intimidation, harassment and the interrogation of travellers by El Al ‘security guards’ . The Media Review Network (MRN) would like to[…]
South Africans have been called upon to participate in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike, starting this evening, in support of Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike. The 24-hour hunger strike will commence at 6pm on Tuesday, May 2 and end at 6pm on Wednesday, May 3. Participants, like Palestinian hunger[…]
Veteran MP and former deputy arts and culture minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi has resigned as a Member of Parliament. The 73-year-old, who has been serving in Parliament since the first democratic elections in 1994, told News24 that “her time had come” and she now wants to rest. Mabudafhasi was one of[…]
Hamas has presented a new political document that accepts the formation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, without recognising the statehood of Israel, and says that the conflict in Palestine is not a religious one. The positions were made official on Monday in Qatar’s capital, Doha, by Khaled[…]
Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the creation of a new popular assembly with the ability to re-write the constitution, which foes decried as a power-grab to stifle weeks of anti-government unrest. “I don’t want a civil war,” Maduro told a May Day rally of supporters in downtown[…]
The 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles the US launched against Syria last month was just “after-dinner entertainment,” which “did not cost the president anything,” the US commerce secretary said, while President Trump called the attack a “tough decision.” US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross delivered the controversial comments while speaking at the[…]
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