The Independent Communications Authority of SA has given the SABC a two-day reprieve to respond to allegations of censorship levelled against it by lobby group Media Monitoring Africa. The lobby group wrote to Icasa in an attempt to force the public broadcaster to reverse its decision not to show footage[…]
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has lodged a grievance with national police management after the demotion of two seasoned Cape crimefighters. Major-General Jeremy Vearey and Major-General Peter Jacobs were informed by the national police head office last week about the change, without consultation. Vearey, the former deputy[…]
As South Africans celebrate youth month, advocacy group Equal Education is calling for history to be made compulsory for Grade 4 to 12 pupils, and for a review of the history curriculum. The group’s two-day national teaching and learning summit, which was held in Joburg under the theme “40 Years[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa, after confirming 67 cases of the disease, with another 1,000 suspected cases being monitored. Health Minister Felix Kabange said only seven of the proven cases were indigenous to the Central African country,[…]
Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Calais ‘Jungle’ migrants who blocked the main road to the Channel Tunnel in a bid to board lorries bound for the UK. The road remained closed for hours as refugees clashed with French law enforcers. The trouble started at around 15:00[…]
Turkish authorities have detained and charged two journalists and an academic with spreading “terror propaganda” after the group took part in a solidarity campaign supporting a pro-Kurdish publication. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and journalist Erol Onderoglu, head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Sebnem Korur Fincanci, and writer[…]
A 19-year-old man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas and use it to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a complaint filed in US District Court in Nevada on Monday, Michael Sandford tried to disarm[…]
Thousands of Venezuelans have been queueing around the country to validate signatures as part of a long-drawn-out process to request a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. Earlier this month, about 1.3 million people signed a petition for a recall vote – far more than the 200,000 required to move[…]
While Muslims have managed to preserve the history of Islam within the Cape, the alleged desecration of the Tana Baru cemetery by illegal occupants has raised further concern. According to the Tana Baru Trust, a family who has resided intermittently on the land for the past 32 years, refuses to[…]
As Palestinian Muslims make the most of observing Ramadan under occupation, continued water restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities has worsened the already challenging situation. While Palestinians have reported large scale siphoning and control of the water supplies in the West Bank, Israel’s national water company, Mekorot, denied restricting water supplies,[…]
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