Rival sides in Britain’s referendum on European Union membership clashed in a passionate debate to the roars of an audience of six thousand in a London concert arena. The debate on Tuesday evening, ahead of Thursday’s referendum, was a final opportunity for the two camps to win over voters, with[…]
In a spate of violent gang activity over the past week, residents of Elsies River were once again forced to flee for the lives, as one of their own was fatally gunned down. While the area has a functioning police station, community members are unsatisfied with the inadequate level of[…]
While the Blikkiesdorp community awaits relocation, the community has been battling to ensure that all school learners attend and remain in school. A recent report by children’s right organisation Molo Songololo indicated that within Blikkiesdorp, at least 40 children have been left without formal education for approximately two years, as[…]
Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander and seriously injured four other Palestinian teens early Tuesday morning west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, after Palestinian youth nearby threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli settlers, lightly injuring them. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the death[…]
The SABC says it is not doing viewers a disservice by electing not to broadcast images of destruction by protesters in Tshwane. The public broadcaster has been flayed on social media over its coverage of the protests which saw at least 20 buses torched on Monday night and the violence[…]
A special advisor to Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan has been charged with corruption and given bail, the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Tuesday. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa is facing 23 counts of “concealment and retention of proceeds of crime” worth more than 1.6 billion naira ($7.8 million, 6.8[…]
An alleged serial rapist, believed to be behind the attacks on two UCT students and a hiker, will remain behind bars as the Director of Public Prosecutions decides in which court his trial will be heard. Patrick Hlomane, 35, appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of[…]
Bus driver Themba Mukhari had a close shave with death after protesters surrounded his bus at 6am, ordering him and his passengers to get out. “They threw wood inside the bus, poured petrol into it, then torched it,” he said. In another section of the township, about 200 people started[…]
A suspect who was arrested following a bomb alert in a Brussels shopping mall was wearing a fake explosive belt filled with salt and cookies, authorities said. Soon after, two metro stations were said to have been evacuated. The incident happened at the City2 Shopping Mall in the heart of[…]
An Egyptian court has reversed a decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Tuesday’s verdict by the highest administrative court in Cairo declared void a maritime border accord with Saudi Arabia, which would have seen Egypt surrender control of the Tiran and Sanafir islands at the[…]
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