Cape Town International Airport has seen more than 200 drug busts since last year, with three of the biggest hauls this year taking place this month. The first week of this month saw the biggest drug busts being recorded at the airport and resulted in the seizure of drugs worth[…]
The Constitutional Court is on Tuesday expected to hear suspended IPID boss Robert McBride’s challenge regarding Police Minister Nathi Nhleko’s powers to suspend him. McBride does not think Nhleko was allowed to suspend him without consulting other members of Cabinet, in terms of the Constitution. As head of the Independent[…]
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s efforts to restore investor confidence in Africa’s most-industrialised economy and ward off a junk credit rating are being frustrated by the very man who appointed him to his post. President Jacob Zuma has spent the past five months lurching from one scandal to the next and[…]
Bosses say the ongoing crisis with Metrorail has forced them to relook at how they run their businesses, from allowing flexitime to getting staff to work from home. In a Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry member survey, bosses reported that their staff had became demotivated and unreliable trains had[…]
As we commemorate Nakba Day, the great catastrophe of the Palestinian exodus from what is today referred to as Israel Proper, we mourn the loss of innocent lives in the struggle toward Palestinians self-determination. The Nakba resulted in 80 per cent of Palestinians becoming refugees, fleeing to the West bank,[…]
Local Qari, Gaarieth Williams, is back on home ground after representing South Africa at the 58th International Qur’an Recital and Memorizing Assembly, which took place in Kuala Lumpur from 2-7 May 2016. With qurraa from more than 60 countries competing, the challenge was not easy for Williams, the only South African[…]
The Muslim community of Malibu Village claims that their Masjied structure was torn down just before Jumuah on Friday by the Department of Human Settlements. Some members of the community say that construction on structure began before it was demolished. However, the Department of Human Settlements says the land is owned[…]
Anglican priest Reverend June Major has put an end to her hunger strike, after abstaining from food and drink for six days. Major decided to stop her voluntary starvation after Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba visited her yesterday in Zonnebloem, where she had been living on the street for[…]
Last week, as Israelis celebrated their Independence Day, Palestinians in the country’s south held the annual March of Return, walking to the site of one of hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed between 1947 and 1949. This mass displacement and dispossession, known as the Nakba (catastrophe), is commemorated internationally each May. But[…]
A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest, beginning the leader’s 27 years behind bars, a report said on Sunday. Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, told British film director John Irvin that he had been[…]
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