Security experts, police unions and some inside the SA Police Service are questioning a decision to drastically cut the police training period from 24 months to eight. The move, which police sources have said acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane will announce at a media briefing today, has surprised[…]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the killing of a Canadian hostage by the Abu Sayyaf armed group in the Philippines, calling it “an act of cold-blooded murder”. Trudeau made the remarks on Monday after the severed head of 68-year-old John Ridsdel was found dumped in a plastic bag[…]
Social media has been on fire following news that Surrey Estate imam and community activist Shaykh Irfaan Abrahams has been elected as new president of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC). Maulana Igsaan Hendricks’ tenure as MJC president came to end on Saturday, after a new ‘top 5’ and executive were[…]
In 2015, there were 214 million cases and 438 000 deaths caused by one of the most preventable diseases on Earth – Malaria. Despite the illness’ easily preventable damage, this mosquito-bourne illness still puts 3.2 billion – almost half of the world population – at risk. On World Malaria Day[…]
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato, accused of masterminding a smear campaign against detective head Jeremy Vearey, has admitted his ongoing dealings with an informer who has surfaced in the Radovan Krejcir saga and who has implicated Vearey in the matter. But he denies being involved in this informer, Pierre Theron,[…]
Pick n Pay on Monday said it had met the Mitchells Plain granny who was reduced to tears over a demand that she pay for a slab of chocolate her grandson had apparently broken in one of its stores. A picture of the clearly upset grandmother on the floor, cradling[…]
The violence was sparked after an NGO car with an Ethiopian driver ran over and killed two children from the Nuer ethnic group in a camp for South Sudanese refugees on Friday, the sources told AFP. In response, a group of refugees attacked Ethiopians living around the camp, killing 10[…]
Kenyan police fired tear gas into a crowd of opposition leaders and their supporters as they marched on the office of the country’s electoral commission to demand it disband before next year’s election. Several protesters were arrested and at least two policemen were injured by stones, police said. The opposition[…]
Both the Home Affairs department and visa application service company VFS have denied any links to President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane and Rajesh Gupta following claims made by the Democratic Alliance last week. The department’s director general Mkuseli Apleni told reporters in Boksburg on Monday that he had personally overseen[…]
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has agreed a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Monday that the country was building up the its Public Investment Fund to become a[…]
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