Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Al-Asheikh, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom, chairman of the board of senior Ulema and general president for religious research and Ifta, condemned Iran’s refusal to abide by the Shariah requirements and arrangements and regulations for organizing the Haj, Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday. He stressed[…]
A man who claimed he was on his way to buy drugs in Khayelitsha before police arrested him, led the officers to a home where they uncovered – among others – explosives, police said on Thursday. This led to the arrest of five other male suspects. Western Cape police’s Constable[…]
Advocate Dali Mpofu on Thursday won an apology from Judge Neels Claassen for questioning his objectivity. Economic Freedom Fighters’ national chairperson had to assure the judge that his submissions will be objective considering the fact that he will be dealing with matters involving his political head‚ Julius Malema. Mpofu assures[…]
DA leader Mmusi Maimane has pleaded with ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) not to downgrade South Africa to junk status, ahead of the agency’s decision on Friday. “I want to urge today to S&P. Tomorrow you make a decision about the downgrade – we don’t want a downgrade. The ANC is[…]
Video has emerged showing a knife getting kicked closer to the suspected assailant in Hebron killed in the infamous March incident. The footage was shown at a court looking into whether an IDF soldier committed manslaughter by killing the wounded attacker. The video exposing tampering with evidence at the scene[…]
The German parliament has withstood a barrage of pressure from the Turkish government, approving a symbolic resolution that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a ‘genocide’. The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining. The move[…]
Saudi women have dismissed the idea raised by Uber that the company was massively improving their mobility, as the car ride service received its biggest cash injection from the kingdom’s public investment fund. Uber, which has been operational in the country for two years, said on Wednesday that it had[…]
Kurdish-led forces have launched an offensive to capture the Syrian town of Manbij, a suspected supply route for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL also known as ISIS) group to smuggle weapons in from Turkey. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed coalition of armed groups led[…]
A South African delegation attended an International Hijri Calendar Unity Conference hosted by the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey. The conference which was held in Istanbul between the 28th and 30th May 2016, brought together Islamic scholars, astronomical experts, technocrats and community leaders. The conference was a culmination of[…]
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has hit out at people who believe their children were better than others. Lesufi was taking part in a debate with Afriforum’s Kallie Kriel on the preservation of Afrikaans in schools which was held at the Motsu Park Hall in Tembisa, Johannesburg, on Thursday. Lesufi[…]
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