There will be no minute of silence to remember the victims of Tuesday’s tragic terror attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in Turkey at any of the Euro 2016 quarter-final games, which kick off this evening, the UEFA has confirmed. Rob Harris, a journalist from the Associated Press, said that the[…]
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy near the capital, Kabul, that killed dozens of recruits. At least 27 people were killed and another 40 wounded in the suicide blasts, a government official told the Reuters news agency. Mousa Rahmati, the district governor of Paghman,[…]
OPINION by Mohammed Omer Abu Ramy stands on a street in Rafah, selling sweets from a donkey cart to make a living. And he is angry – at Turkey’s renewal of ties with Israel, and its decision to drop demands that Israel ends the siege of Gaza. “They left us[…]
Two days after Turkey announced its reconciliation agreement with Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went on the offensive against the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, the organization behind the May 2010 flotilla to Gaza Strip that sparked the crisis between Jerusalem and Ankara. “Did you ask me before you set sail?[…]
Eleven years since the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton, the family says they are finally moving forward. “We still celebrate her birthday every year. It gives us time to remember Jordan in a positive way,” the child’s grandfather Vernon Norton told News24 on Wednesday. He said Jordan’s birthday was[…]
Patricia Noah, the mother of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, is being accused of being a slumlord and taking advantage of the poor. A two-month investigation by The Star has revealed that Noah, an estate agent, owns numerous flats and is the administrator of several buildings in Hillbrow and[…]
The Department of Transport has admitted to registering more than 2,000 dangerous “pseudo-Quantums” for use on the country’s roads, despite warnings from the manufacturer that they were unsafe for human transport. The admission was made during a hearing by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela into the conversion of panel vans into[…]
A police informant who wanted to fight crime claims he is now living on the streets and fearing for his life after his identity was revealed during a drug raid in Cape Town. The man told News24 he regretted helping the police after they did little to keep his identity[…]
Sodwana Bay racist Andre Slade was unrepentant when senior ANC KwaZulu-Natal leaders and hundreds of their supporters gathered to protest at his property against his anti-black remarks. Unfazed, Slade insisted that black people were sub-humans and whites were royalty, and said the Bible was the bedrock for his beliefs. Slade’s[…]
There is still mixed reaction to the R140 billion Wescape mega-city being planned near Melkbosstrand, although some former opponents have done an about-turn. Len Swimmer, chairman of the Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance, said he had initially been opposed to the development, but “had gone in the opposite direction”. There[…]
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