Canada has met a self-imposed deadline to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s civil war, officials said, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Officials with Citizenship and Immigration Canada had anticipated reaching the milestone at some point over the weekend, but were unclear exactly when, given[…]
Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants who stormed the border from Greece on Monday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades. As frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans, migrants trapped on the Greece-Macedonia[…]
Police in Mfuleni on Monday sought public assistance regarding the whereabouts of the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in bushes in the area, Western Cape police said. The baby was found by a shepherd walking cows in the bushes next to the Bosasa temporary housing area. “He [the[…]
“I can’t even describe it. The moment I saw him, it was wonderful.” These were the words of relieved Segria Pieterse after seeing her newborn grandson Sergio on Sunday. He was abducted from Worcester Hospital on Thursday. Police subsequently arrested two women in Ashton on Sunday before returning the boy[…]
The president is not empowered to dismiss the SARS commissioner or ask the National Prosecuting Authority to drop investigations‚ the Presidency said on Monday. Amid calls for President Jacob Zuma to make just such an intervention‚ the Presidency issued an appeal on Monday afternoon for editors and “interested parties” to[…]
A small group of Wits University students disrupted a media briefing called by Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande and Police Minister Nathi Nhleko on Monday, chanting “Blade Must Fall”. The small group were angered when Nzimande requested that only journalists ask him questions. Reacting to Nzimande’s request, one student in[…]
Sunday’s much anticipated Cape Town 10km Big Walk was delayed by over an hour, prompting a furore of complaints from participants waiting since dawn. Thousands of walkers were left annoyed by the wait, as organisers ironed out a few last minute issues with the disaster management authorities at the event.[…]
Gafieza Ismail, an English Teacher at Spine Road High School, Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain, has won the National Teaching Award for Excellence in Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning. The Department of Basic Education presented the 16th National Teaching Awards at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand on Saturday, 27 February 2016. Debbie[…]
Malawi, which once battled to shelter more than a million Mozambican refugees fleeing that country’s brutal civil war, has gradually found itself in the same quagmire once again. Unlike the huge numbers of refugees it hosted during the conflict between 1977 and 1992, Malawi is currently hosting about 6000 Mozambicans,[…]
Standard Bank Research said the “rand sacrificed most of the gains it had made since the end of January”, which analysts on Monday said was due to a boiling point in politics involving President Jacob Zuma and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Zuma said on Friday that he will not interfere[…]
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