Police have confirmed that the recent fatal shooting in Lavender Hill is in fact gang related. Two men were killed and two other people hurt late Tuesday afternoon. Steenberg Police Station Commander, Jan Alexander says while the investigation into the incident continues, law enforcement will be working with residents to[…]
Big business, the mining sector and civil society groups have come out in opposition of the 9.4 per cent Eskom tariff increase for 2016/17, but the ailing utility said it needed a 16.6 per cent hike to recover R22.8 billion. But as consumers feel the brunt of higher water tariffs,[…]
ANC chief whip Stone Sizani has resigned from Parliament with immediate effect, the party said on Wednesday. An ANC MP, who spoke off the record, said Sizani was heading to Germany, where he would be deployed as an ambassador. Sizani would be temporarily replaced by deputy chief whip Doris Dlakude,[…]
Philippine authorities were on Wednesday probing an assassination attempt against an influential Saudi preacher, after the gunman was killed and two suspects arrested. Preacher Sheikh A’ed ِAl Qarni was wounded in a shooting as he left a university auditorium in the southern port city of Zamboanga, where the cleric had[…]
Palestine is turning to renewable to counter unreliable energy imports and save millions of dollars as it implements a new renewable energy law. Omar Kittaneh, Palestine’s minister of energy and natural resources, said at a Clean Energy Business Council event in Dubai yesterday that several initiatives were being released this[…]
Uganda and Tanzania are planning to build a pipeline from Ugandan oil fields to the Tanzanian coast in a move that could strike a blow to Kenyan pipeline plans. Statements issued after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli met on Tuesday did not mention the fate[…]
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has warned EU leaders that the continent is facing a “self-induced humanitarian crisis,” with over 24,000 people stuck on the Macedonian border, and with as many arrivals in two months of 2016 as in the first six of last year. “UNHCR is warning today that[…]
Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwe’s former vice-president, launched a new party on Tuesday to challenge Robert Mugabe, promising to revive the economy and repair strained relations with the west. Mugabe, 92, has been president since 1987. Mujuru, 60, was his deputy for a decade, and was seen as his likely successor until[…]
At 92, he has faced many threats and attempts on his life. Thus when the South African Muslim Lawyers Association filed for him to be arrested and prosecuted for war crimes if he proceeded with his plan to address the South African-Jewish community’s gala Salute to Israel Sunday night, he[…]
The family of the teenager shot dead by a motorist during a smash-and-grab attack say the driver should have fired a warning shot instead of killing him. The relatives of 16-year-old Siphesihle Mkunqwana of Langa say the motorist acted no different to township residents carrying out mob justice attacks. Sipheshile’s[…]
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