ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe took a swipe at Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on Friday for publicly discussing the Constitutional Court judgment on the Nkandla matter. Addressing the media ahead of the party’s manifesto launch in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, Mantashe warned that the judiciary’s conduct will open a debate.[…]
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit southern Japan on Friday – the second powerful temblor in less than 24 hours – with reports of people being trapped in fallen buildings and houses. The quake struck Kumamoto prefecture at a depth of 40km, shaking the region as a series of aftershocks followed[…]
Female genital mutilation (FMG) is a common practice in a number of African countries. Commonly known as female genital cutting or female circumcision, FMG is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. According to UNICEF, while the exact number of girls and women worldwide who[…]
The planning and management of this year’s hajj will be discussed this weekend when the South African Hajj and Umrah Council (SAHUC) hosts its annual road show in Cape Town. SAHUC’s road show will be directed toward creating awareness within communities about the various processes and structures of accreditation. SAHUC[…]
At least nine people were killed after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck east of Kumamoto, Japan. More than 850 others were injured, with some 400 being taken to local hospitals, according to public broadcaster NHK. A man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s have been pronounced dead[…]
Their stories of brutality were heard two decades ago, but the state has largely left finding out what happened to them to the survivors and their families. Twenty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission started public hearings for victims of apartheid crimes, many of those victims still don’t know[…]
A young mother and her two-year-old child were bundled into a police van, detained in a holding cell and released without charge this week. The police have launched an investigation of improper conduct into the actions of two officers, but the Booysen family say they are taking the matter to[…]
A controversial Boksburg station commander, who was alleged to have been running a dodgy loan shark business from the police station’s premises, has been promoted to the position of acting head of the Organised Crime Unit of the Hawks in Johannesburg. Colonel Woolganathan ‘Biggs’ Govender was alleged to have joined[…]
Deadly fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front has put civilians, mostly Palestinian refugees, in danger yet again in the Yarmouk refugee camp in southern Damascus. Issam, a 54-year-old resident of Yarmouk, said that civilians have called for a temporary humanitarian ceasefire[…]
A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court have rejected a last-ditch attempt by President Dilma Rousseff to halt an impeachment process against her in advance of a vote in Congress. Justices denied a request on Thursday for an injunction against proceedings that Brazil’s attorney general – the government lawyer – called “Kafkaesque”[…]
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