Two groups of migrants have been sent back to Turkey from Greece as part of a controversial EU-Turkey deal aimed at curbing the refugee and migrant flow to Europe. A ferry carrying 45 male migrants from Pakistan left the Greek island of Lesbos early on Friday before a second ferry[…]
“Children of exiles” have thrown their weight behind calls for action against President Jacob Zuma‚ for embarrassing the ruling party and flouting the country’s supreme law. This is contained in a letter signed by about 40 former members of “Masupatsela” or “young pioneers” — those who were born or raised[…]
The annual Scouts Kon-Tiki competition, which takes place at Sea Scouts Base in Sandvlei, is set to begin this Friday. Forty teams of approximately 650 children, which include participants who range between 10 and 18 years, will compete to build the most durable and “liveable” raft. The theme for the[…]
A Cape Town family recently undertook the desperate task of locating a missing family member, Gadija Samodien (79), who had travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the minor pilgrimage. The pilgrim, who was missing for 13 days, was located at a hospital in Makkah. She is believed[…]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday said it had reported the Speaker of the House and African National Congress (ANC) MPs who voted to defend President Jacob Zuma to the Ethics Committee. “The DA has today returned to the scene of the crime, where the ANC Caucus and Speaker of[…]
The informant, who exposed several high-profile names in the local diamond industry during one of the biggest illicit diamond busts in South African history, has threatened to compromise the entire case unless he is paid the millions reportedly promised to him by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks). Nearly[…]
Approximately 10 people held a picket outside the Mayor’s office in Cape Town this afternoon, calling on the Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille to answer a memorandum that was handed over to her office two months ago. On the 6th of February the collective, under the banner of #GangsterismMustFall,[…]
A seven-month-old baby is among 15 American Muslims named in two lawsuits being brought against the US government by the Council of American-Islamic Relations for placing the plaintiffs on the so-called terror watch list without due process. “The terrorism watch lists are premised on the false notion that the government[…]
Businessman Patrice Talon was sworn in as Benin’s president before a large crowd on Wednesday, saying he would foster economic development and fight corruption and terrorism during what he pledged would be his only term in office. Benin’s leader can serve two terms but Talon has said he will step[…]
One of the founders of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers revelations on offshore holdings, said his company was hacked. Ramon Fonseca said the leak was not caused by an insider but that the company was hacked by servers abroad. The leaked documents from[…]
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