Muslims should never be found wanting in their clear stand on the side of humanity and a just peace. This was the unequivocal stance by Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) in its response to a heinous attack on two Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt on Sunday, which claimed the lives[…]
A group of Bromwell Street residents, who are facing eviction from their homes in Woodstock, have recently lodged a Judicial Services Commission complaint and a recusal application against the Acting Judge Leslie Weinkove for alleged discriminatory comments made during court proceedings. Legal representatives for Bromwell street residents said they are[…]
Metrorail will be stepping up it’s services in the wake of a national bus strike starting April 12. The nation wide bus strike is as a result of deadlocked wage negotiations between unions from the South African Road Passengers Bargaining Council and bus companies. Thousands of employees in Cape Town[…]
Unions representing bus drivers have given their employers until Tuesday afternoon to engage them if the looming nationwide strike is to be averted. Thousands of drivers are preparing to go on strike on Wednesday after wage talks with their employers deadlocked. They want a 15% wage hike. The drivers also[…]
Three men allegedly involved in the multi-million rand OR Tambo International Airport heist are expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for their bail application. Simon Thlokwane, France Manaka, 26, and Philokuhle Ntanzi, 30, face charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances. Netwerk24 reported that the court granted[…]
Members of Parliament are the voice of the people of South Africa and must not act as the voice of their own political parties, former president Thabo Mbeki said. In a letter published in the The Star newspaper, Mbeki, in reference to the motion of no confidence in President Jacob[…]
Israeli forces detained 509 Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories in March, prisoners’ rights organisations said in a joint report yesterday. The report – written by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights and Addameer – said that the detainees included[…]
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations meeting in Lucca in Italy are looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Calling last week’s US missile strike on a Syrian airbase a “game changer”, Boris Johnson, UK foreign minister,[…]
The Nigerian Army has released 593 people who have been cleared of having no ties with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai sanctioned their release which was done at a ceremony in Maiduguri on Monday, Brigadier General Abdulrahman Kuluya confirmed. Commander of the[…]
A 48-year-old Cape Town father, Maro Cavadias, who is accused of murdering his three year-old twins, is expected to appear in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The lifeless bodies of the little girl and boy were found in Cavadias’ holiday home in Hout Bay last week by their mother.[…]
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