A car bomb struck an armoured police vehicle in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, killing three people and wounding at least 45, the governor’s office said in a statement. The explosion went off in the district of Baglar in the centre of the city, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. Al[…]
Looming food price hikes could be affecting our waistline more than we think. This is according to director of Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA), Mervin Abrahams who conducts numerous studies into the price of food and its effects on consumers. Abrahams, who focuses primarily on economic inequality, reiterated[…]
Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents. Although the official result has not yet been declared, main rival Mar Roxas admitted defeat after polls gave Mr Duterte an unassailable lead. Mr Duterte said he accepted the mandate with “extreme[…]
In response to Metrorail’s annual price hike, which is scheduled to be implemented on July 1, 2016, commuters have launched the Public Transport Voice campaign in support of frustrated community members who continue to be impoverished in light of inflated transport costs. Public Transport Voice, which was launched on Monday[…]
Israel’s Jerusalem District court has convicted a 14-year-old Palestinian boy on two charges of attempted murder after he allegedly carried out a stabbing attack on two Israelis. Ahmed Manasra was with his cousin, 15-year-old Hassan Manasra, who was shot dead by Israeli police after the incident on October 12 at[…]
While Metrorail recovers from arson attacks that resulted in over R70 million worth of damage, the recent attack of a Metrorail commuter, Darryn August, has further frustrated commuters. As a result, Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has decided to create awareness about the role of the Regulator and the various awareness[…]
Unemployment has hit its highest on record, hurting efforts to convince ratings agencies Standard and Poor’s and Fitch not to downgrade South Africa’s credit rating Stats SA reported yesterday that unemployment had risen to 26.7% of the labour force in the first quarter of this year — the highest since[…]
Can a practical, but legal, interim solution be found to ensure that upcoming local government elections proceed? This was the question posed by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng during yesterday’s Constitutional Court hearing. The court was hearing an application for leave to appeal by the Independent Electoral Commission against a judgment[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and his four co-accused are expected back in High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday for the 2013 murder of Lebanese national Sam Issa. The trial has been bogged down by a series of delays. One of his co-accused, Siboniso Miya has been accused of contacting “a[…]
Rhodes scholar and student activist Ntokozo Qwabe has accused the ANC of being anti-black. Addressing reporters following what he called “tip gate”, Qwabe said “‘this is not a government that is pro black”. “The ANC doesn’t get it and we have reconciled ourselves with that.” Qwabe, who was one of[…]
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