The City of Cape Town plans to retract its support for the next State of The Nation Address (SONA), calling the use of security “excessive and unnecessary”. This is after parliament doubled the number of road closures for the yearly address on Thursday and 441 SA National Defense Force troops[…]
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan’s assistant has been released from custody, following a brief appearance in the High Court in Pretoria on Sunday night. Attorney Sarah Jane Trent was arrested on Friday afternoon. Her bail was expected to be set on Monday. In her affidavit, Trent claims she was taken by[…]
Four men found guilty of murdering a Khayelitsha woman and leaving her body in a cement drain will be sentenced in the Western Cape High Court on Monday. Masimthembe Solontsi, Phumlani Nyewu, Melikhaya Mgushelo and Thabiso Balithoba were found guilty in December of the murder of 19-year-old Bongiwe Ninini in[…]
Civilians, mostly women and children, were killed last week in air raids by NATO forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an initial United Nations inquiry suggested. On Thursday and Friday as many as 18 civilians died in air strikes in Helmand’s Sangin district, according to a UN statement released on Sunday.[…]
US hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest and rapper Busta Rhymes have lashed out at President Donald Trump at this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, calling him “President Agent Orange” and slamming his “Muslim ban”. In a politically charged performance at Sunday’s ceremony, the formation broke through a symbolic border wall[…]
Israeli ministers on Sunday endorsed a contentious draft bill that Muslims say is meant to silence the traditional call to prayer, information released by the justice ministry showed. A list of draft legislation put to the vote in the powerful ministerial committee on legislation marked the “bill for prevention of[…]
Syria’s main opposition body on Sunday approved a new delegation to take part in Geneva peace talks later this month, which include Russian-backed blocs that have been critical of the armed insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. The High Negotiation Committee, (HNC) the main umbrella group, said in a statement after[…]
After a harrowing 485 days in prison, Egyptian-South African scholar Shaykh Abdu Salaam Bassiouni finally made his way back to his family in Johannesburg on Sunday. Overcome with emotion, the Bassiouni family welcomed their 65 year old father at OR Tambo International airport, ending what has been a nightmarish episode[…]
At least five protesters and two policeman have been killed in the Iraqi capital during a rally by thousands calling for an overhaul of the electoral system, according to police. Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at thousands of supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shia leader,[…]
Switzerland is holding a referendum on Sunday on whether to make it easier for third generation immigrants to become citizens, after a campaign tainted by anti-Muslim messages and charges of religious prejudice. The government, as well as most politicians and political parties, supports the proposal that would allow the grandchildren[…]
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