Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime former president, has delivered a farewell speech to the Communist party Congress in the capital, Havana, and called for safeguarding communist ideals. The leader of the 1959 revolution, which overthrew the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, emerged from seclusion on Tuesday to muse about death and provide[…]
At least 40,000 Syrians have fled fighting near the northern city of Aleppo in recent days as government forces continue an offensive against opposition fighters despite a truce, the United Nations said. Escalating violence has pushed people eastwards towards the strategically vital border town of Azaz, as well as the[…]
The EFF on Wednesday condemned the police’s response to ongoing protests against campus rape culture at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, calling for the release of five arrested students. “The police have attacked non-violent and unarmed students with rubber bullets and teargas,” EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement. “We[…]
Law enforcement officers continue to monitor Dunoon as Somali shopkeepers face a barrage of attacks. The attacks, which appeared to be directed toward foreign shopkeepers, resulted in numerous foreigners evacuating the area this week. Member of the Somali Community Forum, Abdullah Ali, explained that the situation in the area has[…]
Local activists have written an open letter to food producers and the minister of trade, finance, and industry, Rob Davies, with regards to spiralling food price inflation. While companies attest the sharp rate of inflation to the drought currently experienced, the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign claims that the inflation[…]
The league said in a statement that it “condemns the actions of the group rallying support for Oscar Pistorius which is identified as the International Group for Oscar Pistorius”. Members of the group of supporters on Monday held up a large banner carrying the names of people from more than[…]
Over 7,000 oil and gas workers have ended a three-day strike to protest government plans to cut wages and benefits, according to local newspaper reports. The strike has cut Kuwait’s oil production by almost half. The labor union said on Twitter that the strike succeeded in sending a clear message[…]
In less than two weeks, the damage caused to Metrorail infrastructure stands at R70m, the company said on Tuesday. And the results of the vandalism, which led to two-hour commuter delays on Monday, could take several days to repair or replace. Track circuits between Bonteheuwel and Netreg as well as[…]
Frustrated Metrorail commuters who are being forced to wait up to two hours for a train to work and home, say the delays are not only time-consuming, but costly and unsafe. On Tuesday night, the Cape Argus accompanied Fazlin Cassiem, a Metrorail commuter during the week between Ottery and Cape[…]
Ecuadorians started burying loved ones who died in the country’s worst earthquake for decades as hopes faded that more survivors will be found. In the small town of Montecristi, near the city of Manta, two children were among those buried on Tuesday. They were killed with their mother while buying school supplies when[…]
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