The SABC will appeal the Labour Court order that it reinstate four journalists that were recently dismissed, and will not allow them back into their offices. The Labour Court ruled on Tuesday that four of the eight SABC journalists that were axed by the broadcaster must be reinstated. It also[…]
A remarkable dinosaur fossil discovery made by a South African palaeontologist in 2005 has finally revealed its secrets. The fossil, the most complete ever found of a species known as Heterodontosaurus tucki, was recently scanned at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the[…]
The African National Congress in the Western Cape on Tuesday introduced seven of its 18 ward councillors for the southern suburbs in Cape Town, saying while some of the wards were historically the party’s targets, they were ready to shake up voting patterns. “I think we are going to surprise[…]
Child rights group Molo Songololo says the number of cases of young teens raping even younger children is increasing. The organisation was reacting after a 16-year-old was arrested for allegedly raping two girls, one aged nine and the other a five-year-old. According to police spokesman Noloyiso Rwexana, the boy allegedly[…]
Heavy rains, flooding, high winds and cold temperatures hit Cape Town and much of the province on Monday night. Disaster Risk Management’s Charlotte Powell said the area most affected by flooding thus far was Khayelitsha. “Our teams are busy assessing. The standard procedure is for the Human Settlements directorate to[…]
Hundreds of concerned families have descended on Istanbul’s Silivri prison complex where they have set up camp in a bid to find out even the slightest bit of information about what has happened to their sons, brothers and husbands. The families of the conscript soldiers first began arriving last Monday[…]
Malian forces arrested a regional leader of Ansar Dine group in central Mali on Tuesday, after it claimed an attack in the region that killed 17 soldiers, the army spokesman said. Ansar Dine laid claim to the attack last week by gunmen who fired on troop positions, burned buildings and[…]
An 84-year-old priest has been killed with a knife, and another person seriously wounded, after two men with alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took several people hostage in an attack on a church in northern France. Father Jacques Hamel reportedly had his throat[…]
Japanese police have searched the home of the suspect in a mass stabbing spree at a facility for the mentally disabled in a neighbourhood west of Tokyo. At his house in Sagamihara on Wednesday, police took in cardboard boxes to carry out any evidence. Parts of the property were sealed[…]
The University of Cape Town (UCT) last week released a statement that explained their decision to withdraw the invitation that was extended by the UCT Academic Freedom Committee (AFC) to Flemming Rose to speak on campus for this year’s TB Davie Memorial Lecture. Rose, the cultural editor of the Danish[…]
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