Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one of the last stepping stones to Germany for hundreds of thousands of[…]
Controversial Hawks boss Berning Ntlemeza is gunning for top prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who is largely credited with ensuring Oscar Pistorius was convicted for Reeva Steenkamp’s murder. Ntlemeza is understood to be implicating Nel in the controversy over the alleged “rogue” unit at the South African Revenue Service. The Sunday Independent[…]
Protesters created no-go zones, preventing anyone from registering for upcoming municipal elections and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) from operating at two sites in Kuyisa in Khayelitsha on Saturday. Khayelitsha was among 17 areas in all nine provinces that were disrupted by protesters on Saturday, according to the IEC. Khayelitsha[…]
Clint Hendricks from team RoadCover took first place in an time of 2 hours 35 minutes 35 seconds (2:35:35) in a sprint finish in the Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday. The 109-kilometre route played into the hands of tactical team racing, and with a number of cyclists gunning for[…]
Palestinian activist, Dr. Uri Davis, will be visiting South Africa from March 7-13 on a national speaking tour as part of the 12th Annual International #IsraeliApartheidWeek (IAW) campaign. The speaking tour is made possible by the Embassy of the State of Palestine in South Africa. Dr. Uri Davis, of Jewish[…]
Police using tear gas and water cannons raided the headquarters of Turkey’s largest-circulation newspaper, hours after a court placed it under the management of trustees. Prosecutors accused the Zaman newspaper and its affiliates of praising and helping what they called a “terrorist organisation”. “It has been a habit for the[…]
Turkey continues to shell Kurdish forces in Syria, hampering their operations against Al-Nusra terrorists, and at the same time funneling supplies to the militant-controlled areas at the border, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. Turkish activities in the region are undermining the ceasefire and crippling the efforts aimed at launching the inter-Syrian[…]
Vuwani – Residents of Vuwani in Limpopo have threatened to shut down their village and prevent voter registration at the weekend. A group protested on Friday by blockading roads and pelting police vehicles with rocks. They were angry about the decision to create a new municipality in the area, which[…]
With the recent killing of an alleged smash-and-grab assailant on Jakes Gerwel Drive, members of the Muslim community have voiced their concern about the permissibility of self-defense in the shariah (Islamic law). Islam, like all major religions in the world, is a religion that advocates justice and peace. Muslims believe[…]
A large consignment of fake branded clothingwas found at a factory in Observatory, Cape Town, according to the Western Cape police. Using a search warrant, members of the provincial Hawks confiscated 26 bags of counterfeit clothing, “worth a substantial amount”, at the Scott Road warehouse, stated the police’s Facebook page.[…]
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